Musing

Tidbits or Minor Updates Thomas Covenant - The second book in The Last Chronicles, Fatal Revenant , is due out this October. This is exciting for me, because for me, the Covenant books are one of the most well-written trilogies ever. While you do have to read the books with a dictionary at your side, I don't find that too distracting. Under Construction - I want to find a way to bring good music to you, my Gentle Reader, without beating you over the head with it. So this section of this particular post is going to be tweaked over the next couple of weeks as I work at embedding some simple media player into the page. Eventually it will probably find a permanent home in the sidebar. Right now, the test track is a leaked track from an upcoming Nine Days album. The song is called "Favorite Song." Catchy title, no? Edit (2/27/07): For some reason, I just discovered that the autoplay option isn't working the way it was supposed to. The song is not supposed to st...

The 2006 Ho Media Awards Bringing You the Best Since 2002 It was a tough year of judging in the Ho household. There were a number of new releases in every category. This is also a tough post to create because as of right now, my entire archives seem to have disappeared (Update: A number of other people have reported the same problem, so hopefully it's just a widespread but minor snafu.), which would have made formatting this much easier. We've got new categories this year, so let's start things off with one of those. Website of the Year - Obfuscated Thought OT was gently laid to rest earlier this year, but it was long the home of some of the weirdest science/tech news you could find at the time. The layout was tastefully simple and easy on the eyes, which is something 9 out of 10 MySpace users could learn a lot from. OT, you will be missed. Book of the Year - Neal Stephenson's Cryptonomicon This book is a brick . Some reviewers have said that there are parts th...