There is a New Chapter of the Cardoman book ‘AVery Blue Moon’, posted today over at the FutureVerse. Take a look and examine the site. And feel free to comment either here or there. That’s why we leave them open!
Posted by - Wes February 4th, 2010 under Novel Ideas.
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I put the full explanation up over here . In short it is the PCP and it may end this very day!
Posted by - OldDog February 2nd, 2010 under Off Target.
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I haven’t done one of these for a while but now is the time. I saw this at the Volokh Conspiracy and it fit right in with the way I feel about robots and high tech stuff.
After seeing the cartoon I looked at the website xkcd – A webcomic of romance, sarcasm, math, and language – By Randall Munroe. and looked at some of the other drawings. Very, Very, good. I think I must link to this place on our side bar.
Here is the comic that caught my eye:
Look around there is a lot to see.
A few years ago I wrote something for Colony Achibah that had a similar sense of loss. It never got it posted on Alchibah but I did put it up at the FutureVerse. On the site there I have it posted there as — An Alchibah Epilogue. I still come close to tears each time I read that story.
Posted by - Wes January 29th, 2010 under Off Target.
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The first chapter of the new Never So Few book is posted. We call it The Devil in the Mirror.
Take a look by clicking above or navigating from the sidebar. The Old Dog went over it last night and I finished it up this morning. Now it needs some online editing to catch the things I never see until they stare at me from a web page.
I have been working on this for four hours and time for a brew. Then it’s back to work in the FutureVerse. First a link to the chapter here and then chapter 2 of “A Very Blue Moon.”
This chapter was my responsibility, the next is the Dog’s so timing is up in the air but three or four weeks is my guess. Anyway it’s a whole new ballgame.
Posted by - Wes January 25th, 2010 under Novel Ideas.
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As Wes said I do have the first part of Chapter One in hand, late Saturday evening. The last few days have been a real joy!
Wednesday afternoon I got another of those bombshell projects that I cannot detail here but can describe in magnitude. It would normally be about a 2 month development test and implement cycle.
I got 2 WEEKS due to picking this up from a failed project that is of course way behind. This means a lot of my “home” time is going into software testing and general kludge engineering. Then Momma Nature decided to get into the game!
Thursday night we got hit with the worst winter storm on record since before Arizona was even a freaking State. The power was off for 60% of the entire city for over four hours and was surging up and down for the rest. That meant one lost night of work and was the reason the site was down that night.
That brings us to Friday and Saturday! Have I ever mentioned IDIOTS who will not buy UPS systems for their core computer systems? Why I think I have on many occasions!
Every freaking IDIOT who had not listened to me had system damage from Thursday night. So I spent Friday and Saturday fixing problems that I had in no way caused.
Oh well, it pays the bills!
Posted by - OldDog January 23rd, 2010 under Novel Ideas.
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The first chapter of The Devil in The Mirror is between half and two thirds complete. The Old Dog has it now and it should go up sometime next week unless he decides on major revisions or additions.
I have the Novel Placeholder on the sidebar ready to receive the chapter upon completion and we do not want it to get lonely now do we?
Posted by - Wes January 23rd, 2010 under Novel Ideas.
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The first chapter of “A Very Blue Moon” is posted at the FutureVerse. You say that wasn’t what you were looking for? — Well then this must be it: — We have started on the next Never So Few novel called “The Devil in the Mirror.”
The book starts out with a segment dealing with the Aliens on Chulmer. A very small part is written but we know where we are going with this. I would guess about two weeks before the first chapter sees the light of day but until it does it is my top priority.
Today I get to rest a while and I may get around to talking about the Comp problems I had over the last week and then make a post at the Old Dog Barks website. The Old Dog was not alone in having a few comp related problems. And he might even mention them himself some day.
Posted by - Wes January 18th, 2010 under Novel Ideas.
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The maintenance scheduled for Saturday 16 2010 has been moved to Sunday 17 2010 at the same time due to illness in the house. At that time every site hosted at Fort Old Dog will go down for a few hours around 3:00 PM MST.
My living room has literally become a Data Center (4 servers, 2 multifunction printers, 2 monitors, 2 keyboards, 4 switches, charging stations for I don’t know how many portable devices and a Partridge in a Pear Tree) the cabling having happened not planned, looks like a freaking Rats Nest. Not to mention the dead server (the old olddog.name) just taking up space.
I need to turn everything off, unplug everything, move the crap and route the cabling in a professional manner. Fer Gods sake I teach this crap. I am like the Auto Mechanic whose wife drives the crappiest junker in town because I am to busy working on other peoples stuff.
Today I am going to take some time to work on mine!
Posted by - OldDog January 16th, 2010 under Novel Ideas.
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What happened here was my Paycheck Continuation Program, PCP or job to the clueless!
Last Thursday right after sticking Wes with the start of The Devil in the Mirror, my Boss calls me in. It seems we are now bidding on a Government Contract whose info will reside on my Linux Servers at work (Yes plural, as in 5) and they must meet the current Government requirements for Secure Environment Linux hereafter called SE Linux.
I explain that our servers are running on Fedora 8 and that to meet current Gov requirements we would need to go up to Fedora 12. Not a major problem, when do you need it?
Answer, TUESDAY! Now we have a fracking PROBLEM!
Thus since last Thursday almost every waking moment has been involved in doing a four generation upgrade on five servers. This believe it or not is where this site saved my behind as I had fought the same problems here already.
It is 8:30 AM Tuesday the 12th of January and we are Gov compliant! Now having been up most of the weekend I am dying!
We have a minor competitor who works in the same building we do and when I left work there four IT pukes from that outfit were in the parking lot smoking and griping about there BIND problems as they were trying to do the same thing I had just finished.
Now there are about three people in this town I would not piss on if they were on fire, two of them were in that group!
If you think I told them shit, you don’t read our books.
Cross Posted at www.olddog.name
Posted by - OldDog January 12th, 2010 under Novel Ideas.
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Been a few days so I thought I would report in. The Old Dog sent me the background for the next novel in the Never So Few Universe. Lucky me!! He put me on the hook for starting the first chapter, maybe even the whole thing. I have some ideas about that and need to talk with him. I hope tonight. We need to fill in more details before the real writing starts, I call this plumping the thing up. End of the month or early February before the first chapter hits but I think a few things may be added to the Background Bible before that happens.
I have though started writing the first chapter of the next Cardoman book. I plan on that being ready in another week. I will keep you all advised.
Posted by - Wes January 11th, 2010 under Novel Ideas.
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