STG's

I decided to read Darkly Dreaming Dexter - by Jeff Lindsay after a friend suggested it, since Dexter is one of my favorite TV series. The book was enjoyable, and certainly what happens to the brother on the ending is also an interesting option (although I enjoyed the irony and closing of the first season more). I will probably be reading the rest of the series, although I imagine that it must differ substantially from the TV series...

Cybermancy, by Kelly McCullough, was a very nice read. It's the sequel from Webmage, where Ravirn/Raven has to rescue his girlfriend's webgoblin from Hades, and solve the consequences of the rescue. Again, very nice expanded mythology references. I also enjoyed the discovery of the new powers as part of the name change to Raven.

I was surprised today to hear about a virus that targets Delphi. It's quite clever, really, since it gets huge distribution oportunities...

I've just finished reading Altered Carbon, by Richard K. Morgan. It was very good - although in some points it does slow down a bit. The main item of tech that drives the story is the stack - a device that is implanted on every human after birth and that can contain their whole memories. Those memories can be transfered to other sleeves - bodies of criminals, clones, and synthetics. A similar tech was used in Peter F. Hamilton's Commonwealth Saga, although an important difference is that on Altered Carbon, only the very rich can have their memories transmitted and remotely stored. Other have to count on their stack being retrievable. There are some VR tech and hacking - although I found the hacking terminology sounded silly. Plenty of fun violence with high-tech weapons, too. Overall, an excellent read. I'll certainly be getting the other books.

Cute. I've always been interested in Agents related AI topics. Unfortunately, giving their complexity most schemes never went anywhere - specially mobile agents, which started making less and less sense with the current availability and connection speeds. Maybe someday if we have a consumer level interplanetary web (instead of NASA's)