Charlie's Diary

So, effectively, your technical life is about a Novella :)

s/non-tech autobiography/tech autobiography?

That was fantastic by the way. If you think it'd flesh out to a good book, I'd definitely buy it.

An excellent read. Thanks Charlie!

You know, normally I am bored with peoples' life stories, but damn you have followed an interesting path. I looked forward to each installment.

Thanks, Charlie. That was an awful lot of work on your part, but it was very interesting to read.

I do see why you're a writer, though. Who else could write a whole autobiographical novella by accident? ;-)

Speaking as someone whose academic career is currently doing a good impression of the Tay bridge disaster, I found the story of 'Little Charlie and His Struggle Against the Eunuchs' highly edifying.

Very interesting! Thanks for the view into your life. I've been enjoying your fiction for some time and now find I enjoy your non-fiction, too. Speaking of viewpoints, "non-fiction" is one of those terms like "outdoors." Makes one wonder about the English language.

Filename says it's "redacted". What does that mean?

In the full-text version, in the sentence starting with 'Around the middle of 1998, I figured', a bad link has eaten some of your text.

Good read, btw.

I loved it. I'm currently re-reading all the books I have of yours, just finished Jennifer Morgue (after reading Atrocity Archives again), and was near to the end when I nearly choked to death on my coffee:

"Or my middle names aren't Oliver and Francis"!!

Austin @10: fixed now.

Seo @9: it's redacted because this version is one I've gone over carefully, taking out certain anecdotes which might be considered defamatory or libelous by their subjects. (Don't go looking for the non-redacted version: it's not on my server and I won't be giving it to anyone, for obvious reasons.)

I am saving the last episode for now, just wanted to say that I enjoyed the series. Lots of stuff resonating with my own experiences. The beginning of the series also reminded me of the biography of Jeff Minter, who's about your age I guess from the home computing options that were available to you both back then.

A final reflection on the finale of the story:

I'd say the outcome was fortunate for everyone - virtual hosting companies are extremely fungible, and novelists are not so. Thanks for your unique writing and perspective.

Charlie, this one doesn't link forward to today's post.