Not long after the online version of the Irish Times newspaper appeared, some years back, it went subscription-only. At 70 Euro per year (or whatever they were charging), it was just too expensive: I…

Just stumbled across a reference to this at Lou Romano’s weblog — TotoroForestProject.com Totoro Forest Project is an international charity effort to save Sayama Forest, also known as Totoro Forest.…

There’s been no mention of this on the blog recently, so I thought I’d drop in a note about it now: I’ll be the Guest of Honor at StoCon ‘08 from the…

We’ve been idly looking for something to replace our old rusty hibachi. This looks like a nice possibility. It’s British (but the sales source is in the US: must see…

This is fascinating stuff. Apparently Radovan Karadzic decided that to successfully elude capture, he needed to ditch his armed entourage. Having done so, he then disguised himself as a very full-bearded white-haired…

Anywhere in Dublin, day or night, you’re likely to be knocked flat by people hurrying along with their heads down as they clutch their mobiles and text each other like crazy. Now…

Friends, It’s up at last. There are a lot of places where this notification needs to be posted, and a lot of explanations and profound apologies to be made… but…

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…

My excellent former co-writer and dear friend Michael Reaves and our old buddy Marc Scott Zicree have done something extraordinary with another mutual acquaintance and occasional dinner guest, George Takei.…

Galaxies clash in four-way collision

Now he’s gone, too, after a long, difficult illness that he never stopped fighting. It’s some years since we saw him in Dublin. It was a pleasure to be with…

And so, to my great sorrow, passes one of the most senior, and certainly one of the most beloved, of YA fantasy writers: one of the first of us to…

Check out this website, which specializes in nothing but the low cost airlines: Momondo.com If it can’t find a carrier for a route you’re interested in, it brings up a…

I just wanted to drop a note to thank all those of you who were so kind as to send sympathy messages to me (and to Peter) about the loss…

Peter’s Mum passed away peacefully a little after 9 AM our time. Lost for words, for once…

Friends, Peter’s mother is extremely ill with heart and kidney failure and will not survive more than a short time. With this in mind, my online activitities are going to…

Some of you will know approximately where we live in Ireland, so I am sorry to tell you that this story is locally germane: Post mortems due on County Wicklow…

Last night we got back from visiting Peter’s mum in the hospital up north…and it’s an understatement to say that neither of us were happy to see a woman previously so…

Dear folks, Just a quick note to let you know that things are about to move into a considerably higher gear on the “Big Meow” project. A word first about…

This ad apparently premiered in Europe a couple of days before my birthday, and the minute I saw it, I fell in love with it. The love falls roughly into…

From Lou Romano’s wonderful blog.

Viagra reduces hamster jetlag.

So I’m sitting here wrapping up book packages and getting caught up on the email, and were_gopher sends me this link. (Thanks Om!) And now my birthday is complete before…

But only because all you nice people keep asking. (If you don’t want to read a few paragraphs of what my mother used to refer to, in other people, as…