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• In response to numerous queries: QBit is still alive, and still pretty frisky, considering that our vet suggested he would be gone by now. Yes, his lymph nodes are still swelling, and we won't have him for a whole lot longer, but he's fighting lymphoma pretty well. We're giving him a supplement called Apocaps, that supposedly accelerates apoptosis ( Read more... )

• Lazarus 1.8.4 has been released. Bug-fix release but still worth having. Go get it!
• From the Questions-I-Never-Thought-to-Ask Department: How was sheet music written after quill pens but before computers? With a music typewriter, of course.
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• Author Nick Cole has his finger on what's wrong with print publishing. A big chunk of it is Barnes & Noble. He says what I've been saying for some time: The fate of the Big 5 print publishers is tied to B&N's. When B&N goes under, there will be blood in the streets of Manhattan.
• Great article on that 1920s curiosity, spinning-disk television, with ( Read more... )

• Eating red meat will not hurt your heart. This is not news to people who've been paying attention. Alas, meat has been slandered as deadly for so many years that we're going to be shooting this lie in the head for decades before it finally bleeds to death.
• There are at least two efforts underway to back-breed the aurochs, a very large and ill- ( Read more... )

I've been low-energy for a month or so, following the worst chestcold I can recall. Still coughing a little bit; still low-energy. I'm working up the nerve to write a a series on health insurance that will doubtless infuriate everyone, but since I'm also furious, I guess it factors out. Stay tuned.

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• Our night-time low here dropped into the 50s last night for the first time since we got back here in late July. The pool water is now down to 81, sigh. Autumn is icumin in; cul sinks the pul.
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• Whew. We're in Phoenix, now permanently, with the Colorado house on MLS. Much remains to be done, but the ( Read more... )

• If you're of the increasingly rare human subspecies called "morning people," consider watching the predawn sky for the next few weeks. Once Mercury gets a little higher above the horizon at dawn, you'll be able to see all five naked-eye planets in a line: Mercury, Venus, Saturn, Mars, and Jupiter.
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