The recent LJ T&C changes have finally given me sufficient motivation to bail[1] so any future posts[2] will be over on dreamwidth, where I have the same usernamePS, if anyone reading this is already over there, and I've not found you yet, please drop me a line here with your handle if you want to be found... (comments are screened, I won't un-
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Ancillary Justice is billed as Space Opera. I quite enjoy space opera.
I suppose it is space opera, from a certain angle, in the sense that there are spaceships, planetary invasions and shoot-outs on shuttlecraft. It felt like rather more than that, and the core of the plot is built around something else entirely.
I'd been banging on and on about how identity was important, meaning one thing. The folks I'd been working with had heard me banging on about identity being important, but hearing
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If you work in the business of generating web pages to display to users, you need to know: there's going to be some major changes in the browser landscape over the next year or three
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A couple of nights ago, in a bout of insomnia, I ended up channel-surfing at 02:30. My attention was captured by a music video on MTV2. It was long - over 5 minutes, maybe even 10 - and featured starbursts, video-game spaceships and small octopuses (it was
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