Hobbyhorses and General Ranting

The Calanda Saga Continues

By Diane Duane ⋅ August 6, 2011 ⋅ 3 comments

So I finally got into Windows XP recovery console a few times and took a look around. The error message I’d been receiving was this one: “Windows could not start because the following file is missing or corrupt: \WINDOWS\SYSTEM32\CONFIG\SYSTEM” …which pretty much means a corrupted registry file. This can be fixed in the console, though [...]

Note to Calanda

By Diane Duane ⋅ August 5, 2011 ⋅ 4 comments

Ah, gently aging XP machine that lives upstairs… Today I thought I would relieve you of a little of your burden by finally getting my old iTunes installation moved into the newer desktop machine downstairs via home sharing. So I spent an hour and a half, or it might have been two hours, downloading iTunes [...]

He Whom I’m Getting Tired Of Seeing Named

By Diane Duane ⋅ July 26, 2011 ⋅ 9 comments

…Not Voldemort, of course. I harbor a certain sneaking affection for a villain who manages to get so much done without a nose, and who has exploited for his benefit a folkloric trope* that the Lone Power (and many another otherworldly archvillain) has used before him: of being one who shouldn’t be named, because [...]

Just a few things in passing

By Diane Duane ⋅ July 26, 2011 ⋅ Post a comment

Work day, busy busy. But first: At the Ebooks Direct store we now have Microsoft Reader versions (the .lit format) of The Door into Fire, The Door into Shadow, The Door into Sunset, and the Tale of the Five Omnibus. (I was holding off on the conversion to .lit because I didn’t have the reader [...]

Whatever would the Dean say…

By Diane Duane ⋅ July 12, 2011 ⋅ 2 comments

…about what’s going on at the moment. I mean of course Jonathan Swift, the Dean of Christchurch Cathedral in Dublin — that perfect raconteur, columnist, satirist without peer, and celebrated man of letters of his busy century. He would, I bet, have serious words to say about the last week’s news. Maybe the political establishment [...]

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