pushing the sky

It says a lot for this election that I’ve waited until Election Day to say anything about it that goes beyond 140 characters. It has really been that kind of election campaign – a dearth of substance from all sides in an effort to come to power by attacking the other side. It’s not a [...]

WordPress 3, iOS (nee iPhone OS) 4, iPad, and a new website, oh my! Yessir, I’ve been just a tad bit busy with things, so here’s a consolidated update: WordPress 3: pushing the sky is now running on the latest and greatest WordPress has to offer. Usually warnings apply, if you see anything funny let [...]

At the Cinema Cost of two movie tickets to a standard session of latest hit: $36 Cost of a medium popcorn and two drinks: $16 (Optional) Internet booking fee to guarantee seats: $1 per ticket At Home Cost of a DVD on your giant flat-screen TV on your very comfy couch: 3 months from cinematic [...]

Ok, I know the whole iPad thing is getting tired, but here’s one final one (for now) that’s making me reconsider it a bit – just look at this quote: I went back for a second helping of Avatar this Sunday. There’s a scene early on in the movie where one of the scientists walks [...]

Ok, ok, no mucking around with an introduction for real this time. (and in case you’re coming here out of order, here’s part 1, and part 2, and part 3) But before I do that… I have finished reading the book. And it is good. Later parts – indeed, parts that start to get discussed [...]

There’s nothing more fun than reading an 800-page novel on the way down from level 21 in the lift – when the lift comes to a stop on an interim floor, the look on the face of the person entering gives away so much, primary amongst which has been something akin to “Wait, if he’s [...]

Well, after Part 1′s overly extended meandering get-nowhere introduction, I really shouldn’t be attempting a second round of introduction. So if I said here that I wanted to go through and try to introduce the Wheel of Time series to those who hadn’t read it, you wouldn’t like that, right? Thought so. So for those [...]

A Prelude, or What on Earth is The Gathering Storm? When I heard Robert Jordan had died, I gave up on the idea of ever getting a satisfying conclusion to the Wheel of Time series. Here was an author who had stretched and stretched a story over 11 meaty volumes, one which apparently at the [...]

At least, not like they used to. Dan Cederholm caught the mood rather succinctly: Like anyone who used to blog with frequency pre-2005, I’d like to post here more often — not just to fill up bits and bytes, but to write again. Remember when blogs were more casual and conversational? Before a post’s purpose [...]

Err. Well. That’s quite the embarrassment. I appear not to have updated with anything of significance since, well, 4 months ago when I said I couldn’t post anything of significance due to looking for work. Since then it has literally been one thing after another that’s just kept me occupied and neglecting this place significantly. [...]