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Just a few minutes ago, I finished transcribing my interview with
Storm Constantine. It
still needs copy editing (as does the one with Michael Moorcock) but at the
least the original work of transcription is done. Jesus lord, if I had
known how hard this work would be, I would have never
have started. I still believe that I can have principal text finished
by next weekend. I’ll take printouts of these two interviews with me
to Augusta this weekend as I visit my neice. Maybe somewhere in there
I can find time for a little red pen work.

I’ll be a guest at two science fiction conventions trying to promote
this book –
Dragon*Con over Labor Day weekend and
Orycon the weekend before Thanksgiving. Hopefully I’ll be on
interesting e-book panels (any interesting panels would be fine.) With
any luck, the guys from
Fictionwise will give me some more coupons to pass out again. I
did last year, I don’t know how effective they were.

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Just before we went to the beach for the Fourth of July, I splurged on
a toy for myself – iRiver’s
SlimX MP3/CD player. I really, really, really
love this thing. It plays my old time radio MP3s, which can be all
over the map in bitrates, mono, and weird encodings. It has a remote
control with an LCD readout that tells me what MP3 is playing. It even
has an onboard FM receiver. Rechargeable batteries come with it, and
the menuing system allows you to explicitly discharge and recharge
them! How cool is that? I’ve had it a month and am really taken with
it. The OTR stuff meant that I couldn’t just grab any old $49 player
and use it the way I wanted but I never expected that I’d have a
player I liked this much. On top of everything, it is so small, light
and really cool looking. All around, this device is a thumbs up.

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My friend from Portland, Shannon, pointed out that the CSS was making
the page scroll way to the right on IE. That should be fixed now. I
only use IE when I absolutely have to, since I hate it. I’ve been
using Mozilla for 8 or 9 months
now, and I think it is the way to go. The tabbed browsing has altered
how I use browsers, and being able to bookmark a whole set of tabs and
load umpteen pages with a single menu action is awesome!

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Dave Slusher is a blogger, podcaster, computer programmer, author, science fiction fan and father.