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Commented on Competition Time!
Is that all?!?!...
Commented on Monarchy versus the Panopticon
In that case you want Dr Who not Game of Thrones. http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/Alfie_Owens...
Commented on No. Words.
You're right. Problem with them both being in the same venue, memories get mixed....
Commented on No. Words.
"IIRC last Worldcon here, didn't John Brunner drop dead?" Yup. Massive stroke first day of the con. I saw him the day before and said hello but didn't have time to chat as I was running around doing set up...
Commented on Status update
Good to be back in a sane commenting format. The last few weeks has remonded me why I gave up on newsgroups after I was forced to go in via google instead of my old offline reader....
Commented on Everyone Draw Mohammed Day: my contribution.
If you've not come across this strip before have fun. http://www.jesusandmo.net/2010/05/20/...

Common Misconceptions About Publishing—a series of essays about the industry I work in.
How I Got Here In The End —my non-writing autobiography, or what I did before becoming a full-time writer.
Unwirer—an experiment in weblog mediated collaborative fiction.
Shaping the Future—a talk I gave on the social implications of Moore's Law.
Japan: first impressions — or, what I did on my holidays
Inside the MIT Media Lab—what it’s like to spend a day wandering around the Media Lab.
The High Frontier, Redux — space colonization: feasible or futile?
“Nothing like this will be built again”—inside a nuclear reactor complex.
Old blog—2003-2006 (RIP)