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SUBMISSION BOMB.
I just sent out five stories to various markets. I've been so crazy busy that I haven't had time to send them back out until now. In fact, at one point I didn't have time to bathe. (Fret not, it was for a good cause, and it paid off. All will be shared in the...
Edit-o-rama.
I'm hoping this is close to the last draft of my bug story. It's about 4800 words of insecty goodness! Um. Yeah. Trust me on this. Heh. In other news, I have a huge pile of stories that need to go back out because of commute hell. Maybe I should go do that...
Patch Tuesday
If you're like me, you have Patch Tuesday on your calendar. In fact, if you're like me, you're running something like this at home! with your linux desktop checking itself and your Windows desktop for available patches via Nagios! No? It's just me? (It's not just...
Nagios Plugin – SQL Job Status
I checked out Nagios Exchange, and didn't see anything that checked the status of a job and used Windows/AD credentials/trusted connection. So I wrote this. It's intended to run as an NRPE script, and doesn't require anything that doesn't come with Windows and SQL...
“Saving Alan Idle” sold
"Saving Alan Idle" will appear in an upcoming edition of Escape Pod. I read part of this story at both WisCon and DragonCon, and I always really enjoy this one in front of an audience. So, for those of you who heard me read it and wondered whatever would become of...
Commute Hell
Does anyone have experience writing on the train? Or similar multitasks?
Immortal Gifts invites readers to re-evaluate the meanings of things such as life, death, freedom, hate and love from the first page. Katherine Villyard manages to capture some of the most poignant questions we ask ourselves as we go through our individual lives. Is it worth being able to live forever if, in the end, we’ll lose the ones we love to mortality? Is Death really the ultimate enemy to life, or is death just life’s misunderstood old friend? To stop hate, do we need to restrict our freedoms? This book makes readers ask and answer tough questions not only about the characters and plotline, but about their own beliefs, understandings, and dreams.