My Slice of the Globe

Category: Writing & Reading

  • Etc: October 14

    So I’ve been doing at alot of traveling and running about and the site has gotten a little neglected. But here are a few things to keep you guys entertained: Flight Aware: Ever want to really know where your flight is, not the airline’s “update” but the actual real location of the plane (6 minutes…

  • Harry Potter in the Hood

    I should have Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows sometime tomorrow but in the meantime, Enjoy! 7/23: Updating youtube link

  • Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Release Date

    Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’ release date of July 21st has been announced. You can pre-order it now from amazon : Standard Edition Deluxe Edition The Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix movie is due out in theaters on July 13th. Hmm … I think I’m not going to get much done…

  • Musharraf on Daily Show

    Here is Pakistani President Musharraf in a interview on the Daily Show. Pay special attention to Jon Stewart’s first and last questions. Part 1: Part 2: Part 3: The memoir Musharraf was plugging : From the reviews I have read, the contents of the book seem a little sensational and a little more fiction that…

  • Quickmuse

    As seen on TechCrunch : Quickmuse is in their own words “a cutting contest, a linguistic jam session, a series of on-the-fly compositions in which some great poets riff away on a randomly picked subject.” Basically 2 poets are given 15 minutes and a quote as a topic and they proceed to write a poem.…

  • Write a Story and get asked for you fingerprints and DNA by UF police

    According to this article on Boing Boing, a University of Florida English graduate students was asked to provide fingerprints and DNA after publishing a story involving a murder on his blog where he publishes his stories. The murder as well as his stories are fiction. To make the story even weirder, apparently this seems to…

  • Davinci Code Lawsuit Judgement Contains Secret Code

    Apparently the judge who presided over the Dan Brown plagiarism trial decided to have a little fun in the wording of his judgement. The Judge decided to embed a secret code in it. An article concerning this can be found at : CNN If you would like to take a crack at decrypting the code…

  • Davinci Code Lawsuit has no merit

    A British court has thrown out the lawsuit against Dan Brown. Here is more info from the LA Times. </center>

  • A must read : Dan Brown’s Statement for Lawsuit

    You may or may not have heard of the lawsuit concerning possible “plagiarism” for for “The Davinci Code”. Here is a USA Today article on the suit (no pie charts included) : http://www.usatoday.com/life/books/news/2006-03-26-da-vinci-main_x.htm What is really cool is that as part of this case Dan Brown went through and has written up how he puts…

  • Lord of the Rings – The Musical

    A musical adaptation based on the J.R.R Tolkien trilogy just openned in Toronto : http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/4840278.stm Reviews have not been very good so far.

  • Grok WordPress

    Well if you made it this far, you are looking at my brand new and still under very much construction site. Welcome! It’s going to take a little bit more elbow grease but so far WordPress (blogging software) rocks! At first glance the picture behind the blog name looks like it may have come as…

  • My last blogger post

    Well I went and got myself a domain , two, actually so please start looking for new posts over at https://www.netfarious.net/ and http://www.netfarious.com/, they are mirrored for now. Right now my new blog is up and running other content is still TBD but with lots of space and bandwidth, who knows where it will go.…

  • NANOWRIMO – I’ld like to buy a vowel

    It’s almost that time of year again, yes in 13 days it will be November. November is a time for Turkey, at least one wedding I know of, and of course lots of inspiration and perspiration from writers. Novemeber is of course, National Novel Writing Month or NANOWRIMO for short. The goal of NANOWRIMO is…

  • Harry Potter Sparks gunfire

    The BBC reports on the Potter craze gone awry.

  • How to get hired, or at the very least, how to get me to take a 2nd look at your resume

    I was taking a look at some resumes this week and I was taken aback at the state of most of resumes that were submitted. So here are some basic rules for anyone who cares to listen : 1. Use spell check. 2. Use punctuation, at the very least use an occasional sentence and end…

  • Potter mania to begin again…

    Several headlines are now showing that book 6 of the series : Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, will be released on July 16th, 2005. I’ll never forget walking into Costco picking up my Order of the Phoenix book, walking over to get some bagels and then walking past the now more than half gone…