Walking on the Moon

I’ve reviewed Rory Stewart’s excellent The Places In Between and started The Weather Makers in Bell, Book, and Candle.

I finished Sharpe’s Rifles, and there’s a review up in Bell Book and Candle.

My review of The Polysyllabic Spree is up on Bell, Book, and Candle.

My review of Team of Rivals is up on BBC.

Ylum (the machine that is www.lunabase.org and several other names) was up and down a bunch this evening.  I added a Gigabyte of RAM, which should be a straightforward operation.  It’s not so straightforward when you slightly dislodge the motherboard power connection.  If you’re curious, on ylum’s motherboard the first service you lose when you do that are the cooling fans.  It took a while to figure out why the machine was suddenly intermittent, but the firmware seems to have saved all the hardware, and now all is well.  In fact, better than well as ylum’s got twice the memory it had this morning.
You learn something new every day.

Review of The Good, the Bad and the Mad is up in BBC.

Reviews of The Rise of American Democracy, The Life and Times of the Thunderbolt Kid, Palestine Peace Not Apartheid, and Brainiac are up on BBC. How’s that for a selection.

Yep, I spent part of my Thanksgiving tending to a few grap bugs that have come in over the past couple months.  The result is the 1.40 release available from the usual place.  Consult the CHANGES file for the details of the bugs fixed.  FreeBSD port to come.

Reviews of Frankenstein and The Skeptical Environmentalist are up on BBC. I had a plane trip, so I got some reading done.

My review of The Subtle Knife is up on BBC.