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GMail is not creepy

There have been privacy concerns popping up all around over GMail, Google’s free web-based e-mail service. Most of the uninformed concerns bugged me, but not enough to do a write up about it. Then I ran into the alarmist site G-Mail is too creepy, which summarizes the issues I’ve seen raised.
I […]

Timing is everything

So I get today my used copy of The Devil’s Candy, a book about the massive failure of The Bonfire of the Vanities as a movie, printed in 1992.
The Kirkus Reviews blurb on the back reads:

Like watching a World Trade Center tower topple onto Wall Street

I bet whomever wrote that is now pretty damned glad […]

The whole gun issue

My first instinct when watching Michael Moore’s Bowling for Columbine, a film on what he calls the whole gun issue, was to sit down and dissect the various issues he points out - both were I agree with him and where I don’t. I passed on the idea, but I’d still like to put […]

Fear and Lusting

( Stories )

Think of it as a cliché, if you will, but I write for myself first. Or at least, the stories I end up finishing are those I’m writing first and foremost because I enjoy writing them. A close second comes writing for my friends, hoping they’ll enjoy it half as much as […]