Archive for: May 2006

After not reading much for the past couple of months, I read three books over the memorial day weekend:

Nicotine Kiss, Loren Estelman. This is Estelman’s newest Amos Walker novel. It’s a pretty typical outing - Walker’s on the …

The Dallas Mavericks knocked off the defending champion San Antonio Spurs Monday night, winning in overtime to finish off the best series in years. The Mavs were better by the slimmest of margins - six of the seven games …

A programmer-centric post this time, without fucktard-related ranting.

When I was developing my Bleeker Books site, I put together a Visual Basic Script (hereafter VBS) component that extracted data from an Access database, or any database with an OLEDB driver, …

Some dark, malevolent force doesn’t want me to visit Houston.

I was supposed to go to Houston for “Noir Night 2″ last December (later downgraded to “Not Quite Noir Night”, or maybe “Noir Night Lite”, when some of the authors had …

What a great weekend of games in the NBA playoffs. I was actually going to live-blog the Mavericks game on Saturday afternoon, but a trip to the zoo and an early dinner with the family scotched that. I …