I found the first issue of Doctor Who Magazine I ever purchased (#63) today at the neighborhood half price books today for $.50 -- my version had long since lost its cover, so I had to get it. Nostalgia took over.

My, Davison looks so young....

(also found DWM #47, DWW #34, and DWW #3, and a used copy of Ken MacLeod's The Cassini Division, to go on my stack of to-be-read-someday pile.)

And I saw Galaxy Quest, clearly the best documentary ever on Science Fiction Fandom. :)

Once again, on line webzines appear to be fanzines in disguise, with slate doing the politics in The Planet of the Apes and an article on why Akira is classic anime.

My Jurassic Park 3 Review

From the Slashdot file: News: Microsoft pulls back on Java support
Very interesting....

I'm not that surprised. Really, if you are seriously interested in running Java, you want to download one of the more recent runtimes from Sun, not use the one that Microsoft includes. It's a more up-to-date and better version of Java.

And based on what I've seen, C# is so obviously influenced by Java, and the whole .NET technology is strongly rooted in Microsoft's experiences were with Java, it's not surprising at all. Not at all.

I've described -- and probably stole at some point, and forgotten the attribution -- Java as being C++ - C. That's of coursenot really accurate since Java has the garbage collection built into the language, which C++ doesn't naturally have . And C# has the garbage collection, so it's probably better described as Java + C. But that's still a greatly simplistic outlook on it.

One of the best things about this site is like Bernice Summerfield, I can sort of put post-it-notes over what I write, and correct any mistakes I find, or things I don't like, by just updating past entries.

Though I don't have the sorts of things Benny has here, since this isn't a diary, and is public. So all I ever correct are typos and mispellings, mainly....

Minnesota people can figure out their Sales Tax Rebate 2001.

WELCOME TO THE FANGROK HALL OF FAME!
all right, bits of it are funny...

TheForce.Net has a tv commercial for the DVD release of Star Wars: The Phantom Menace (which, to tell a dirty little secret, I actually really enjoyed.)

Is Your Club Dead Yet?
Surfing the web on some general SF links I found this interesting article.

prog rock dock - your site for reviews and commentary on progressive rock, past and present
argh. had a big essay wrote up to attach to this link, and then my browser crashed. Doesn't that suck?

It's a pretty cool site with some Marillion videos, news on a Genesis DVD, and other prog-rock junk.

Ah....just that I realized that I'm not nearly as successfully obscure to be a very good fan. I'm too pop, even with this marginal stuff. Far to pop to be a good progressive rock fan. (If there is such a thing)

When it comes to SF, I'm much too much the media fan to really be part of that scene, and there are other differences I've noticed in philosophy and outlook that sometimes make things difficult as well. Even though I love getting together with other enthusiasts of the genre...

It's probably true with computers; as I'm not very dogmatic on what OSes to use, or what languages to use.

I'm even far too moderate politically.

But it doesn't really matter. I'm generally happy with how I approach these things... One of the reasons why I think I've got this site is to have a bit of all of that out there, I suppose, and collect my hobbies in one place.

I saw Cats & Dogs (2001) today. Funny, cute little kids movie.

And I'm going to be off to see Doctor Who (1996) pretty soon.

And you know what's sad? I was able to link the two by one person. (John Debney composed the music for both.) Even worse? Didn't need to check IMDB.