Monday, 30 March, 2009. 04:33:52 PM

I hate hold music. When I'm waiting on a conference call with hold music I can't get anything else done because of the annoyance. It's particularly bad when the hold music is soft jazz. The best hold music is complete silence on the line. /n

Monday, 30 March, 2009. 09:04:57 AM

Today is the 20th anniversary of the death of Pepper (the first). /n

Friday, 27 March, 2009. 11:53:14 PM

I'm working through all of the Robert Heinlein novels and some important short stories. This is my progress so far.

-For Us, the Living-- (1937) (posthumous publication in 2003)	X
Sixth Column (1941) (aka The Day after Tomorrow)	X
Beyond This Horizon (1942)
Rocket Ship Galileo (1947)
Space Cadet (1948)
Red Planet (1949)	X
Farmer in the Sky (1950)
Between Planets (1951)
The Puppet Masters (1951)
The Rolling Stones (1952) (aka Tramp Space Ship) (aka Space Family Stone)
Starman Jones (1953)
The Star Beast (1954) (aka Star Lummox)
Tunnel in the Sky (1955)
Variable Star (1955) (by Spider Robinson in 2006 from Heinlein's outline)
Double Star (1956)
Time for the Stars (1956)
The Door into Summer (1956)	X
Citizen of the Galaxy (1957)
Have Space Suit, Will Travel (1958)
Starship Troopers (1959) (aka Starship Soldier)	X
Stranger in a Strange Land (1961)	X
Podkayne of Mars (1962)
Glory Road (1963)
Farnham's Freehold (1964)
The Moon Is a Harsh Mistress (1965)
I Will Fear No Evil (1970)
Time Enough for Love (1973)	X
The Number of the Beast (1979)
Friday (1982)
Job: A Comedy of Justice (1984)
The Cat Who Walks Through Walls (1985)
To Sail Beyond the Sunset (1987)
Methuselah's Children	X
The Past Through Tomorrow
The Man who Sold the Moon
Revolt in 2100	X

Wednesday, 25 March, 2009. 08:44:45 AM

I'm a member of Dawn and Drew's Minion Army! http://www.dawnanddrew.com. Been listening to their podcast show for years, almost since the beginning. /n

Sunday, 22 March, 2009. 10:49:05 PM

I turned off my country blocking as part of my spam filtering to see what would happen, and as I expected, the amount of spam I receive from overseas far outweighs the amount of mail that I receive from overseas. I don't want to turn the foreign mailserver blocks back on though, it is really too drastic a solution. So, I'm going to test a greylist on my mail server over the next few days. /n

Saturday, 21 March, 2009. 12:33:08 AM

I just finished watching the end of the Battlestar Galactica series. It went "Metamorphosis of Prime Intellect" at the end, which was a nice surprise. /n