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Monthly Archive August, 2017

Before "Celebrating" Four Years with Another Protest

Considering the recent events, it definitely seems that we need to “celebrate” four years since the start of the “Romanian Autumn” of 2013 with new protests on the same matter. Not that there haven’t been other new reasons to protest lately as well, and some did, reports stating that around 3000 gathered Sunday, but some […]

Not a Post About No Longer Needing to "Earn a Living" or Unconditional Basic Income

After Thursday, when Alma added herself to those sharing one of the many rotten articles popping up lately to bash NEETs, those living off their parents’ money in particular, and people expressing an unwillingness to chase any job available just to earn something in general, and I ended up writing some long comments and saving […]

Finally Getting Around to Forcing HTTPS and Having… Interesting Neighbors

Saturday, so “only” three months and almost three weeks after switching the site to HTTPS, in the sense of changing the links that included the protocol and also the tiny relevant bit of the script generating the fantasy art gallery, I finally got around to enforcing this switch everywhere. After my initial tests and also […]

Quick Review: Feast or Famine

This is such a short story that it feels odd to even rate, not to mention write something as well, but since it ended up on Goodreads and it actually does involve the characters from the Temeraire series, I guess I might as well. One particularly nice thing about it is that it only involves […]

Quick Review: Vici

It‘s just a short story, but since it’s on Goodreads I guess I might as well write a little comment, even if it doesn’t have anything to do with the Temeraire series other than the fact that it also involves a newly hatched dragon, the start of her relationship with the human she chose, and […]