STG's

In his image (Book One of the Christ Clone Trilogy) *Very* good. The basic premise is based on cells being found still alive in the Shroud of Turin. These cells are used to create to a clone. The pace of the book is excelent, although the nuking might have been a bit excessive :-). Lots of questions unanswered on the end. I've already gotten the second one. Crown of Slaves Yet another Honor Harrington book. Honor shows just a bit on this one, just like on Shadow of Saganami. It was pretty good - Victor Cachat (which appeared on several of the short-story Anthologies) makes a great showing as usual, and the trend of making books on the HonorVerse without the focus on Honor seems to be working well.

Nick Bradbury: Depressing piracy statistic On his blog, Nick Bradbury, of HomeSite, TopStyle and FeedDemon fame, (I use TopStyle and FeedDemon myself) mentioned that the previous week's Feeddemon activations were 90% cracked serials. Ouch. I'm still struggling with the question of adding activation to my own products. Obviously, the big question is if it would add more sales than would be lost by those who hate activation. In Nick's case activation is almost invisible since it has to access the net anyway. My utilities don't so it's bound to be much more annoying...