It’s that time of year again. The time of year when everyone and their dog waxes nostalgic about all the shit nobody cares about from the year past, and stupidly predicts the next year in the grim knowledge that when the next New Year comes along, nobody will remember that the dumbass predicted a bunch of foolish shit that turned out to be complete and utter balderdash. I might as well, too. Just like I did last year (yes, a lot of this was pasted from last year’s final chapter).
I want to apologize for my absence from S/N for the last six months or so; I’ve been busy offline. I’ve penned a few SF stories I’m shopping to the magazines, and took out a mortgage and bought the house I’ve been renting for ten years.
I’ve also written a few articles that really should have been at S/N but I only posted at mcgrew.info. I apologize for that, too. I did write more articles than last year, even if they didn’t all go to S/N.
I’ve kind of always been like that; I was away from slashdot from about 2000 to around 2005. I haven’t been there for a few years now. I'll try to be here a lot more next year.
Some of these links go to /. (these would be old stuff), S/N, mcgrewbooks.com, or mcgrew.info.
As usual, first: the yearly index:
Journals:
Random Scribblings
the Paxil Diaries
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
Articles:
A Useful Computer Program Using Only HTML
As mentioned above, I’m shopping the SF. You’ll see it sooner or later.
Last years’ stupid predictions (and more):
I predicted that I wouldn’t have a book ready in 2019. I got it right!
I’ll also hang on to most of last year’s predictions;
Someone will die. Maybe you, maybe me. Not necessarily anybody I know... we can only hope. I did lose a friend and some acquaintances this year.
SETI will find no sign of intelligent life. Not even on Earth.
The Pirate Party won’t make inroads in the US. I hope I’m wrong about that one.
US politicians will continue to be wholly owned by the corporations.
I’ll still be a nerd.
Technophobic fashionista jocks will troll slashdot (but not S/N). I have no idea if that one or the following held up, anybody been there lately?
Slashdot will be rife with dupes.
Many Slashdot FPs will be poorly edited.
Microsoft will continue sucking. Windows 10 really sucks, it sucks that they’re stopping support for 7 next month, and it sucks that I’m not sure if my new Dell convertible laptop will run Linux.
There will be elections in the US
Happy New Year! Ready for another trip around the sun?
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