Archive for: October 2005

In some ways, short story writers are like migrant fruit pickers. We go where the work is. That’s especially true for mystery writers. So when you show up at the camp, you’re not really surprised to see some …

If you’re going to make a boring movie, at least have the common courtesy to keep it short. I’m talking here about Kingdom Of Heaven, Ridley Scott’s movie set during the Crusades. Now, Scott has directed some of …

I took my daughter to the pumpkin patch this weekend. She’s just turned six, and she already had a pumpkin, but she wanted a little one she could keep in her room and more or less treat like a …

About 10 million Iraqis went to the polls last weekend in a referendum on the new constitution - roughly 70% of eligible voters. Even the ones who voted no - and there were a couple million at least - …

The last of the XML jokes, I swear. I managed to get around my problems from the post of last week and get at what I’m really trying to do: blast unedited HTML into the middle of an …