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Out of Spite, Out of Mind, is the latest book in the Magic 2.0 series, which cover an universe which is computer generated, and the people who have access to a specific file can effectively do magic. In this volume, one of characters (Brit the Elder) gets in trouble after a paradox, and reality gets a bug that the wizards must fix if they don't want the universe to cease existing. This one felt pretty short, and had plenty of funny bits. Enjoyable, as usual, but nothing great.

I had Off Armageddon Reef, by David Weber for a while, but decided to read it (or re-read it - I know I read parts of it before, not sure if got to the end) because I heard that the 10th book in the series was released. The story base is nice - human kind was interstellar, but aliens hunted each planet down and destroyed it. Humanity escapes with enough to make a colony, but tries to do it with low tech because the aliens located other colonies, presumably through tech emissions. One android with a human download survived the crazy church that was established by the colony leaders, and she will have to lead humanity to liberate itself from the church and eventually beat the aliens. Of course, most of the novel is not SF - it takes place in the world where yes, there is an android messing with things, but the tech has to be pretty low. So substantial portions are just conspiracies and politics (which is a common David Weber thing, if you've read the Honor series). There is a l...

I wanted to get a track list from Google Play Music. Unfortunately there is no way I am aware of to just choose your library and export the whole thing to CSV. What can be done is go to Google TakeOut , choose Google Play Music and then wait for it to notify you. For me this took about an hour, to get a 3MB ZIP file (you don't have to wait on their page, though - you can check later or wait for the e-mail). On the ZIP file there is a CSV with data on each track (both on your library and on each playlist, in a folder) and a index.html file. If you need a simple list track title list, this is very easy - just open the index.html file, click to open the playlist you want or just the tracks folder, select all (Ctrl+A) and copy. You will get a list with the track names plus .CSV. Naturally, this is not the best (MANY tracks have the same names but different bands or albums), but it might do for your needs. I'll probably make a simple PC app to go through all CSV files and ex...

Just finished The Best Science Fiction and Fantasy of the Year, Volume Twelve. I am not going to go through each story and talk about them, but just wanted to mention that it was overall quite good. There were some great stories, some OK ones, and a few that were mostly annoying. Still, very much worth the time.

I've sort of "fixed" my mouse offset problems and cursor exits from Just Cause 3. For whatever reason, both seem to happen sometime, specially if I need to change focus from the game. Sometimes just going to another app and returning solves it, otherwise if I go to Options, Graphics, and turn full screen back on (or turn it off and on again), it seems to get fixed. However, still annoying.