STG's

I've just finished reading Variable Star today - around 2 AM - I just couldn't stop reading... It is a book by Spider Robinson based on the a recently found outline for a juvenile by Robert A. Heinlein. It is a very good read. The tidbits on the end about how he wrote it in Heinlein's cufflinks and how the first book he ever read was written by Heinlein are quite interesting,too. The ending did feel a bit Deus-Ex machina, though. That said, I'd love to see a sequel! Looking around I found a interview with the author, who said he haven't thought about it. That is a bit hard to believe, given how the sequel was left nicely open AND sounding interesting.

Archivarius is a search system (like Google Desktop or Copernic Desktop Search), but it supports many formats, including The Bat's mail files. I didn't try it (and it's NOT free), but that is interesting. There is also a plug-in for Google Desktop elsewhere, but I use Copernic, myself. The Bat support is almost enough to make me try it again, but not enough. The first version was pretty bad - locking up and wasting resources - and it seems that the options to choose what you want to scan are still shaped presuming you want to scan all your drives, instead of just a few folders, which is what I do. Both options are very easy on Copernic Desktop Search . The only options I'm missing is one to index filenames only - useful for folders with large files you don't want fully indexed but where filenames would be useful.

Find All Domains on Same IP Tool - SEOLogs.com : " 7) ucpco.com" Nice tool. Works ok with some of my domains, but not all. Interesting anyway.

I've recently read Freehold by Michael Z. Williamson. I got it on one of the packages at Webscription . These packages are a great deal all around - the books are very reasonably priced for the reader, and since so many are series every time I buy a package I end getting another to cover the rest of another series. That part is great for the publisher, of course... Freehold was very nice. The Freehold of the title is a planet that has an anarchy based society, in which everything goes great - crime is non-existent (even if everyone is heavily armed), taxes are minimal to none, etc. (I can almost believe that could work - the citizens would need a completely different upbringing than any I've heard of, though) The UN-unified Earth, very incompetent, of course, enters war because they can't tolerate how well they are doing without a heavy-handed government. Now that I can sure believe in... One thing I thought was interesting were the paralels with Net Assets . Net Assets i...