Finis
About a year ago I started with Fading Memories, both to experiment with Zope, and to provide some kind of track or trail of my readings. I’ve kept a reasonably meticulous record for a year, and in...
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By Eric Flint Talk about a timely release — just when I was down and out with a spot of pneumonia, Eric Flint releases the sequel to 1632 in Baen’s Free Library. I rather liked the people in 1632, even...
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I first encountered Terry Pratchett’s work in 1986, when Fergus McNeill’s Quilled adventure game adaption of the Colour of Magic was released for the ZX Spectrum. Back then, Fergus was a bigger name in...
View ArticleWhy I Stopped Reading Books Written By Judith Tarr
Not about Krita or KDE… Instead it’s about my reaction to a blog article or two by an author whose work I used to buy. Some time ago I read an article by Judith Tarr on Women In Science Fiction. It...
View ArticleTwo Awful Books
So… My blog originally started out as a book review blog, and to celebrate its return (we moved from a home-hosted server to something cloudy), let’s talk about two gosh-darned awful books. The thing...
View ArticleThe Awful Dilemma
I like fixing bugs… It makes people happy who have their bugs fixed, it makes Krita better, and it can be done in relatively small time laps. And it gives one a sense of having been usefully productive...
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Letter From Nanette — Or How Brexit Came Home
Just back from Fosdem, where thousands of people from all over the world came together to celebrate Free Software and to work together towards one goal, I found a letter from the Dutch Customs Office...
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Checking out the Competition: Clip Studio
So, last week I read a review in the German C’t magazine of Krita 4.4.0. It was all very complimentary, but the conclusion was: Mit seinen Animations- und Vektorfähigkeiten hebt sich Krita von der...
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A tale of too many macs
For someone who really doesn’t like the company or the platform, I’ve had curiously many macs. It started with a Powerbook Pismo which I got secondhand to investigate some problems Krita had with...
View ArticleTwo novels
I’ve often said I started working on Krita just because I needed a Linux application to draw maps for the novels… But I have never shared the novels themselves. I don’t think I’ll get them published,...
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