Very unwell. And apparently getting more so. I’m starting to work my way through all the usual stages to make sure of where the problem is — replacing the monitor driver, installing new display drivers for the card (it’s a Radeon 9800), running diagnostics — but at the moment, here’s what I’ve got.
 

…Not much to say […]

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A lot of traffic finds its way to Out of Ambit via Google. Some of the searches (as they display in the system / stats logs) are interesting. A selection from the last few days: 
“Diane Duane” mormon
I’m not.
best crumpet recipe
That’s over here. (Or here.)
creator of wolverine
You’re looking for my old friend Len Wein.
afterlife money
(blink) What??
 
 
 
 
 

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For you iPhoners and other outwardly-mobile types, we now have a .mobi version of OOA. It’s at:

http://outofambit.mofuse.mobi/

If you prefer to read Out of Ambit’s mirror blog at LiveJournal mirror (“Word Salad II”), we’ve got a mobile version of that too:

http://wordsalad2.mofuse.mobi/

 Have fun!
 
Tags: .mobi, mobile, Out+of+Ambit, Word+Salad+II, LiveJournal

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As the year winds down, it seems like a good time to upgrade OOA to a newer version of WordPress so that “blogging as usual” can resume after the New Year.
With this in mind, please note that, starting now, OOA will probably be acting strangely — or may go missing entirely — until the upgrade […]

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On the delightful John Scalzi’s last list of his 51 best personal writers’ blogs in SF and fantasy, OOA ranked 49th. Now it seems we rank 36th.
Well, coolness, but don’t ask me why. (And don’t ask me whether I’m SF or fantasy, either. I prefer to saddle the Great Divide and confuse everybody possible, […]

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We interrupt this morning’s business (draining the fishpond to give it a much-needed cleaning and tend to the aquatic plants, and repeatedly going out to use the slingshot to scare off the starlings that are trying to nest under the roof above the window near my desk…) for an announcement about things that are going […]

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I’m going to be testing an application called BlogJet that lets you post to multiple weblogs while working offline. Let’s see how this goes…

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It looks as if the import of messages (though not comments) from Blogger to WordPress has gone OK. So now I can get on with other things, like refilling the fishpond (it’s clean now, thank Ghu) and finishing up the last work on chapter 3 of The Big Meow.
(Insert here a small restrained “yippee”, conditional […]

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Now that DianeDuane.com finally has a server, over the next couple of weeks I’m going to start stripping some of the less bloggish stuff out of OOA, including the ancillary blogrolls and linklists, and relocating them over on the website. So things here may disappear abruptly, or look very weird, while I’m restructuring stuff. Apologies […]

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