Charlie's Diary

CMAP #9: Ebooks

There is no topic in the publishing industry this decade that is the source of as many misconceptions, superstitions, lies, plausible untruths, and idiocies as ebooks. Ebooks generate more email to my from my readers than just about any other...

Posted by Charlie Stross on May 9, 2010 2:40 PM

2009 Redux

Working today. (What, you thought I took Christmas off work? Hardly — but I've been lying on my back panting for the past week, having finished the first half third of "Rule 34", and you've got to go back to...

Posted by Charlie Stross on December 25, 2009 11:41 AM

News from the Future Front

I'm going to be on the road again this week (same time, same place, same errand — more or less). In the meantime, though, here's this month's Halting State moment; the BBC report that the police are on course to...

Posted by Charlie Stross on October 19, 2009 6:21 PM

Halting State moments ...

MMO operator MindArk has been granted a banking license for its virtual world Entropia Universe, by the Swedish Financial Supervisory Authority.This is an exciting and important development for the future of all virtual worlds being built using the Entropia Platform,"...

Posted by Charlie Stross on March 30, 2009 11:09 PM

Another HALTING STATE moment ...

Watching this YouTube video, followed in turn by this one. (The first is a demo of how to turn a Nintendo Wii remote into a head-tracking display controller. The second video is a demo of how to integrate Second Life...

Posted by Charlie Stross on February 27, 2008 6:36 PM

HALTING STATE moments

A HALTING STATE moment is what happens to my head when another bit of the jigsaw of extrapolation that went into that novel falls into place. It's sort of the opposite of cognitive dissonance, only just as unwelcome. Lumos are...

Posted by Charlie Stross on January 4, 2008 10:58 AM