Having put this off for a week or two now, I figured that a quiet half-hour this afternoon was a good opportunity to purge this bit of unpleasantness from my system. Today I tackle the miscarriage of fantasy writing that is The Redemption Of Althalus by David and Leigh Eddings.

Read on, gentle viewer.
Redemption Of Althalus review

If you’re like me (and who isn’t?) you probably enjoy music and want a nifty way to organize and access your considerable MP3 and Ogg music collection for easy LAN streaming.

NetJuke is the latest such product I’ve employed to achieve this task, striding boldly in the footsteps of Globecom Jukebox and Tunez before it. Unlike those other products, I haven’t had to hack anything at all to make all of my music import cleanly and run easily.

If you have a Linux box sitting around with lots of hard disk space, if you have a bunch of MP3s and/or OGGs that you’d love to “jukebox,” follow the link below.
NetJuke

So far I’ve reviewed two novels, both by Anne McCaffrey. I’ll be expanding my horizons soon, I assure you. (I’m going to give the Eddings tome The Redemption of Althalus a once-over some time very soon.)

Click on the Books link to the right to see the relative ratings given to the novels, or click the links below to read whichever particular review interests you.

Nimisha’s Ship review
The Skies Of Pern review

Because what could be better than putting eight people into a pile of scrap and turning them loose to build zany machinery? You can read about Junkyard Wars, the original UK version called Scrapheap Challenge, and visit the website of the New England Rubbish Deconstruction Society, or NERDS.

Oh yes, and you simply must read the ten reasons why being on “Junkyard Wars” is better than being on “Survivor”.
Junkyard Wars site
Scrapheap Challenge
The NERDS