Tag: announcements

  • 1,500 Books in 30 Years

    31 Dec 2025 » 1 min read about Reading & Books

    Today marks the completion of 30 years of keeping track of the list of books I’ve read. Yesterday, I finished my 84th book of 2025, which also happened to be my 1,500th book since I began keeping my list. The book was C. P. Snow’s The Two Cultures and the Scientific Revolution I began the…

  • My 20th Blog Anniversary

    26 Oct 2025 » 1 min read about Blog & Site Meta

    This is just a quick note to recognize that today, October 26, 2025 is the official 20th anniversary of this blog. My first post (a list of driving music) appeared on October 26, 2005. Back then, the blog was on LiveJournal, but it was just a few years later that I migrated it to WordPress,…

  • Updates to the Blog, July 2021

    01 Jul 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta

    This past weekend, I moved the hosting of this site to WordPress, and in the days since, I have been delighted with the results. The WordPress Happiness Engineers (especially Paul Jacobson) did an outstanding job of making this a smoother migration than I could possibly have imagined. With this migration, I wanted to point out…

  • Some Site Updates

    27 Jun 2021 » 2 min read about Blog & Site Meta

    I have been self-managing this blog for nearly 12 years now. I enjoy writing here and interacting with everyone, but not so much the work that goes into keeping the site up-and-running. So, over the next few weeks, I will be transferring this site to a WordPress.com-managed site. I am doing this for several reasons:…

  • I’m the newest interviewer/book reviewer for InterGalactic Medicine Show

    11 Apr 2012 » 1 min read

    Seeing as how I got the okay to make the announcement: I will be doing some interview and book review columns for Orson Scott Card’s InterGalactic Medicine Show. I’ll be doing the interview columns for the July and November issues of the magazine. I will be doing the book review columns for June and July.…