I’m looking for someone with solid MythTV experience and a good grasp of the English language to help me out with a project. All I can promise in return is glory, and that will be proportional to the eventual success of the project. If you’re interested in spending some time (probably around 40 hours or…
Author: mikal
The Riftwar Series
This series follows to young kids who grow up in a rural castle on the edge of an empire. Pug ends up being the greatest Magician to ever live, and Thomas ends up being merged with an ancient being of massive power. Its a good series, even if people accuse it of being steeped in…
A Darkness at Sethanon
This book took longer to read that I would have liked, because I have been busy with other things. Its a good book though, and a fine conclusion to the Riftwar Series. I liked this book a lot, although I do think that Magician (Apprentice and Master) was a better book. [isbn: 0553263285]
irtrans remote control stops working
I’ve been using a Zalman HD160B media center case for quite some time, and I love it. It came with an irtrans based LCD and remote control built into the case, which has always worked nicely as well. Until yesterday when the remote stopped working. When I run the irserver command in a terminal so…
Finding locking deadlocks in python
I re-factored some code today, and in the process managed to create a lock deadlock for myself. In the end it turned out to be an exception was being thrown when a lock was held, and adding a try / finally resolved the real underlying problem. However, in the process I ended up writing this…
Bill the Galactic Hero on the Planet of Bottled Brains
(Edited by Harry Harrison.) This book started off better than Planet of the Robot Slaves, but I found the random Star Trek and Star Wars rip offs in the middle of the book intensely annoying. This isn’t so much a satire it is a disjointed list of ideas. I’m disappointed to be honest. [isbn: 0380756625]
Foundation’s Triumph
This book is pretty good. I’d say its the best of the three Second Foundation Trilogy books in fact. Unfortunately, you need to read the other two in order for this one to make any sense, which is a shame because the first one sucked, and the second one was ok. A lot of loose…
Belgarath the Sorcerer
This book is a follow on from The Belgariad and The Malloreon written from the perspective of one of the protagonists in those two series — Belgarath the Sorcerer. This book has quite a different style from the others. It is written in the first person as Belgarath’s personal memoir. The book is really long…
Books read in October 2008
Seeress of Kell Iron Master The Stainless Steel Rat Goes to Hell Magician: Apprentice Magician: Master Foundation and Chaos The Stainless Steel Rat Joins the Circus Silverthorn Bill the Galactic Hero: Plant of the Robot Slaves You Can Be The Stainless Steel Rat
You Can Be The Stainless Steel Rat
This is a Stainless Steel Rat book, although different from the norm because it is a choose your own adventure. Its also the last of the Stainless Steel Rat books in the series, and the only one I hadn’t yet read. I figured I’d document my path through the story, so here goes: 30 –…