A profound change has come upon me. No, it’s not the male menopause, although I’m long overdue for a red sports car and a dab of Rogaine. No, this change is based on the realisation that from this week onward, whatever I’m doing, wherever I am, I will never be without a book to [...]
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What next for Big Blue? (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books) Over the past few days, a computer called Watson, built and programmed by IBM researchers, has played the game of Jeopardy! against two of the contest’s best players. And it won. To many who watched the match [...] Yeah, alright, so you didn’t even notice I was away, but I was. Thanks to the total incompetence of my ISP, Telstra, I have been offline for 15 days. I don’t think I have been so long without the Internet since about 1985. There’s progress for you. And being without the Web and email [...] First there were blogs. Then there were RSS feeds. Then there were feed readers. Now, there is Paper.li! Never heard of it? Well, it hasn’t been around long, and you’d prbably have to be into Twitter to notice it. If you are, you’ve probably seen tweets saying “The Fred Bloggs Daily is out now!”, [...] Voyager by Stephen J Pyne (This review first appeared in the New York Journal of Books.) Voyager: Seeking Newer Worlds in the Third Great Age of Discovery by Stephen J. Pyne is a book that aims to set the West’s exploration of the Solar System in its historical context. Pyne, a historian at [...] The other day, someone in my online writers group wondered if a particular publisher was still in business. They had submitted a manuscript to them four months ago and had heard nothing. So they’d checked the website and found it hadn’t been updated since some time in 2008. Of course, old hands at the [...] The Queensland Writers Centre is touring blogs again. This time the tour has a theme: Writers’ Desks. For some reason writers’ desks are fascinating and pictures of same are hugely popular. So QWC is probably onto a winner here. However, when they asked me to put up a picture of my own desk as [...] |
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