Archive for March, 2003

George Alex Effinger

Thursday, March 20th, 2003

I just finished reading three scifi books by George Alex Effinger.

They were "When Gravity Fails", "A Fire in the Sky" and "The Exile Kiss".

They are set in a muslim hustler town called the Budayeen.

The books are from the late 80ies/early 90ies, and they still hold up completely to modern standards. I wouldn't know they [...]

IO Interactive Update

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003

I had a terrific day at work today.

Yesterday, I also had a terrific day at work.

The day before that, it was the same.

In other words, I am having an absolutely marvellous time at IO.

I really, really love my job.

I know that for a large part, I am repeating myself here, but this time I [...]

Flipside

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003

Curiously, I have also been meaning to write a short blog entry about how much more energy I have after work after the sun has started being out a little longer.

I really, really dislike the danish winter. It's a minimum 4 months a year, where my days are practically halved. My energy is completely gone, [...]

Iron or vacation

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003

I am so amazingly tired these days, compared to how much I am sleeping.

Not just the last few days, but increasingly over the last month or so.

Recently I read that many vegetarians get symptoms of iron depletion after having been vegetarian for 4-5 years (as far as I remember), which is about what I have [...]

Phoenix

Wednesday, March 19th, 2003

I just installed a new phoenix nightly build.

They have certainly fixed a bunch of things in the new builds.