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Monthly Archive February, 2013

Done for Now, Save for Driver Issues

My rushed computer upgrade was essentially done on Tuesday, but I only closed the case this evening, deciding that I’ll wipe the old IDE HDD on dad’s computer, when I’ll install it there. A potential issue was my TV tuner, which doesn’t exactly have Windows 7 drivers, but I was able to use the Vista […]

Quick Review: Robyn Hood: A Girl’s Tale

While for a while I was saying that reading this makes me think less poorly about my own writing, it seemed to improve somewhat in the later parts, though editing issues have been obvious throughout. It’s a very light read, featuring action and scenes that don’t quite stand up to scrutiny, the likely consequences often […]

Rushed Computer Upgrade in Progress

After yet another HDD failure, I sent the shop an e-mail detailing the service history and asking what can be done. I was considering asking for another model as replacement, but waited for a reply before going that far, so I didn’t at first. However, instead of replying to my message, they apparently tracked down […]

Quick Review: Never Mind the Balkans, Here’s Romania

Having some curiosity about this ever since release, I jumped at the chance when I saw this edition given away for free and I’m not sorry I did. Of course, it’s a collection of very realistic short stories and my main focus are high fantasy series, followed a long distance behind by a few other […]

Green Warriors: Is This the End of Japan’s Whale Slaughter?

There will be a lot of talking about this, Japan will most likely present an entirely different version of events, courts, judges and many lawyers will most probably be involved, possibly some international bodies as well, but for the moment the most information about what happened today is coming from Sea Shepherd and, while I […]