On Gadhafi

I quoted this before about someone else. Guess it's time for a replay of that quote.

"I guess I oughta be happy...but I'm not." - John M. Ford, The Final Reflection

In a Minor Rush on Elgin Street

And now that I've gotten my unhappiness over Gadhafi being dead rather than en route to the Hague out of the way...

Uploading the photos I took of Adrienne Clarkson's latest Writersfest-linked visit to Ottawa to my Flickr account whilst eating supper, checking my e-mail and my LJ friendlist to see how they're all doing at the moment. That list of books I've reading this past year will have to wait a little while yet.

Space exploration and commerce over half a century

A recent blog entry by David Brin drew my attention to this graph:

http://www.technologyreview.com/computing/38339/?p1=Mag_story1