This morning the tech world and software-lovers everywhere went nuts over the incredible news: Adobe was giving out free copies of their Creative Suite! With serial numbers! OK, granted, it was CS2 from 2005, and it won't work on Macs running Lion or Mountain Lion, and it's a bit tricky to install on Windows running [...]
Read MoreSeeing my Destiny at the new year

Our New Year's was spent at the Winter Park Dexter's because Amp'd was playing there, and any time you can arrange your affairs to hear Destiny Porter McDavid sing you should definitely do so. Ordinarily we're not New Year's party people. The clubs are filled with strangers, all the amateur drinkers come out, and neither [...]
Read MoreAnother reason — as if you needed one — to buy Peter David books

Last week Peter David, he of the many Star Trek books and the comics and the movie novelizations and his own series of fantasy and surly heroes and werewolves and modern-day Arthurs and vampires and many, many more, had a stroke. He was in Florida on vacation, lost the use of an arm and a [...]
Read MoreRandom thoughts on a new year

It's been said that whatever you do in the first of the year is a prediction for what you'll be doing the rest of it. I suspect that has the same effectiveness as washing your car to make it rain, but on the whole I'd be pretty happy were it to be true. Has some [...]
Read MorePainting the Trail

So this guy named Jeff Sonksen painted some silly fence panels for the outside of his parents' fence, facing the Seminole County Trail off Dixon near Markham Woods Road in Longwood. And people liked it. So he made some more. And people liked those. And he kept going. And people started donating money, and paint, [...]
Read MoreTo my friends who talk to me in bars…

…I am not ignoring you. Nor am I being condescending or aloof, I'm not bored with what you're saying, and I'm not wishing you would leave me alone, no matter what my facial expression might suggest. Honest. In fact, the odds are good I really want to talk to you, since weekend nights are usually [...]
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