I want to try to blog more, but my health is very poor and I'm horribly busy, largely trying to buy a house in another region of the country and get us moved -- all remotely. It's been far more time consuming and labor intensive than I anticipated, it's wearing me out and not leaving …
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Hello all. It's been awhile. Those of you still with me know the last four years have been really rough, but this one is topping even last year, which I didn't think could be done. The point, though, is that I used to post regularly for years, decades actually, but the past few years, I …
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Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords Who are Bringing Down the Internet by Joseph Menn My rating: 3 of 5 stars Fatal System Error is an absolutely scary as shit, totally frightening book about today’s hackers and their ties to the Russian mob and how billions of US dollars in terms …
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From Counterculture to Cyberculture: Stewart Brand, the Whole Earth Network, and the Rise of Digital Utopianism by Fred Turner My rating: 2 of 5 stars This book was a massive disappointment. I had been wanting to read it for so long and had really been looking forward to it. I had heard about the Whole …
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The Transvection Machine by Edward D. Hoch My rating: 4 of 5 stars Oh no! Vander Defoe, the inventor of the new transvection machine that's going to save humanity, has been murdered! At least that's how it appears. He goes to the hospital to have his appendix removed and the mechanical surgeon causes blood to …
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