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Just where have I been…?

January 12th, 2007

So it’s been a couple of days and I’ve been nowhere to be seen - barely even a comment on someone else’s blog and not a post in sight (well for a day or so). I’ve been really flat out. Which is really awesome.

The main thing that’s been taking up my time is transferring Blog About your Blog over from Blogger into a hosted WordPress blog. That alone has been fun as I’ve learnt a whole bunch of fun little facts about the new Blogger.

But for the most part the blog is now transferred over and PoEt and myself have been in talks about directions for the blog to go into and I really think it’s going to become a powerhouse place to promote your blog!

So if you get the chance duck over there and have a look around.

We have a new book and a new playing card bookmark!!!

I am currently reading the second novel in what they refer to as the Sprawl Trilogy. Count Zero by William Gibson. I think I’m only one book off having all of his novels and I’ve only read Neuromancer at this stage! I’m really following a bit of a trend with the whole hacker thing. But that’s fine as with some of the projects I’m doing right now it’s nice to be in a computer state of mind!

The head designer from Maas-Biolabs is defecting to Hosaka. Turner has to deliver him safely, and the biochips he invented - which are of supreme interest to other parties, some of whom are not human.

‘Count Zero’ is the second chapter in the Sprawl series. It is set in the same dark future and takes place about eight years after the events of ‘Neuromancer’. Cyberspace has gained consciousness since the unification of Neuromancer and Wintermute, and parts of AI are loose in the matrix with their own agenda.

The story was published as a serial in Isaac Asimov’s SF Magazine in three parts in the January to March 1986 issues. The protagonist’s handle ‘Count Zero’ comes from the programmer term ‘count zero interrupt’, which describes the moment when a program has looped enough times to cause an interrupt (event which causes the program to stop doing one thing, and start or check another).

Actually I’m working really hard on developing a proposal to a number of web design firms so I can go and work directly for them and no longer freelancing. I love freelancing. I really do but as I’ve mentioned here before I really just want to concentrate on the work itself.

Check out Tisha’s Blog for a post that certainly gives a little inspiration to the whole matter! I warn you though there are Cojones!!!

And because I’m feeling pretty proud of myself for introducing a friend of mine to season 1 of 24:

Jack Bauer doesn’t have a firewall on his PC. He has a Bauerwall. It’s basically just a JPEG of Jack Bauer. No virus has ever attacked Jack Bauer’s PC……….Ever

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