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Entries from August 2008

New fiction piece published in Keyhole Magazine

August 18th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The wonderful folks at Keyhole Magazine are running my newest short-fiction piece, “The Migration Patterns of Insects,” in their summer edition. Please be a pal and pick up a copy. I love this magazine and I’m stoked and honored they asked me on board for this issue. I’m proud of the story I’ve featured in […]

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Tags: Personal News

Owner’s Manual One-Year Anniversary: the Yearly Craw.

August 15th, 2008 · 6 Comments

So, it’s been a year. One year and 45 posts later I’ve managed to keep this site hobbling along with semi-regular updates, though the responsibilities of a day job and the (occasional) pleasantries of fiction writing have a tendency to nag like the ulcers I’ve recently adopted. I’ve done a lot of bitching and moaning […]

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Tags: Personal News · The Monthly Craw

FBI admits spying on reporters

August 11th, 2008 · 1 Comment

The FBI admitted on Saturday that it obtained the phone records of newspaper reporters employed at the Washington Post and The New York Times, as reported by the Associated Press.

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Tags: News on the News · Politics

Why is Hollywood spying on BitTorrent sites?

August 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

Internet and privacy advocates say U.S. wiretapping laws should be updated to protect email and cyber content, this after a recent court case involving Hollywood’s alleged breaching of a popular Website for confidential information.

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Tags: Politics

How the FCC forced Comcast to clean up its act

August 6th, 2008 · No Comments

Finally. The Federal Communications Commission has come down on Comcast, the Philadelphia-based telecom giant that has repeatedly been accused of interfering with Internet traffic and violating user privacy.

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Tags: News on the News