by Paul Fischer
Lulu TV’s hit Internet show, This Day in Alternate History (TDAH pronounced Ta-Dah!), was guest hosted on Sunday Nov 4 by your favorite podcast hosts Paul Fischer and Martha Holloway.
In this episode of TDAH, we report from the World Science Fiction Convention in Yokohama, Japan. If you’re a Godzilla fan, you can’t afford to miss [...]
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by Paul Fischer
In solidarity with our NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) peers, we will be podcasting at 9pm on Friday Nov 2, 2007. This is for the ADDCast.
We are twisted and incapable of being serious about it. We’ll be bringing on people who are drunk and attempting to write anything. This pandemonium will take place over a [...]
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by Paul Fischer
The Bad Astronomer himself, Phil Plait, tweeted about this photo from NASA. I liked it, but NASA doesn’t provide 1440×900 images for use as background images for my Macbook Pro. So I made one myself, filling in the bottom with a little black space. Download and enjoy.
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by Paul Fischer
HUGO WINNERS
Best Novel: Rainbows End
by Vernor Vinge (Tor)
Best Novella: “A Billion Eves”
by Robert Reed
(Asimov’s October/November 2006)
Best Novelette: “The Djinn’s Wife”
by Ian McDonald (Asimov’s July 2006)
Best Short Story:
“Impossible Dreams” by Tim Pratt
(Asimov’s, July 2006)
Best Related Book:
James Tiptree, Jr.:
The Double Life of Alice B. Sheldon
by Julie Phillips (St. Martin’s Press)
Best Dramatic Presentation,
Long Form: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Dramatic Presentation,
Short [...]
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by Paul Fischer
Didn’t sleep much last night. The Uber suite at the China Trust near the Taiwan airport had rock hard beds. One large solid block of wood with a millimeter of foam on it. Flying into Narita was uneventful, and the train was long time to get to Yokohama.
First pass through Tokyo. No sign of Godzilla. [...]
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by Paul Fischer
I think I have finally beaten IMAPS (IMAP with SSL/TLS don’t ask me which) and SMTPS (SMTP with TLS) certificate configurations on my server.
In my case, I am using an OS X 10.3 which has built-in IMAP and SMTP (postfix). They both come pre-configured to use a server.pem file in /var/imap and /etc/postfix respectively.
We use [...]
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by Paul Fischer
I’ve always wanted to be the power behind genius. And now I am!
Read about it here!
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by Paul Fischer
The email said it was only good for 6/7, but it worked for me at 10:50 am.
http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/MobilitySite/~3/123078598/
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