Needs tinkering yet - Vish needs shoes, and proper lighting, Ditatt needs a sword. And I've discovered enough about composition to realize I have to recompose to get the two figures much bigger. But it's Sunday night and I've got to stop. So ... (warning, the link is to a big file!)


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I have learned some things about Image Vue. It requires two levels of directories. It will not show images placed in a top level directory. eg:\html\gallery\content\Places\Gelion\gelion3.jpg is OK, but \html\gallery\content\Places\gelion3.jpg will not work. Also it appears to only recognize .jpg files. At least I know that it does NOT show .gif files. So I will be changing all the gif files that I have already put up to jpg.
Any new directories created MUST have their permissions changed (chmod 777). I will do that for you if I am told the EXACT path of the new directory.

Cheers, David.
 
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I found this site very inspiring. It has many different web site designs that you can change with one click, all done by CSS. I gotta learn this stuff!

Enjoy.

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"The Open eBook Forum collected data from 24 leading e-book publishers worldwide as a base for its estimates and assessments of the e-book industry.
The number of e-books sold worldwide increased by about 130,000 from the first quarter of 2003, from 228,440 to 421,955 e-book units sold, representing an increase of 46%.

The Open eBook Forum concurrently released the top five selling e-books for May 2004: The Da Vinci Code by Dan Brown, Van Helsing by Kevin Ryan, Angels & Demons also by Brown, The Da Vinci Code: Fact or Fiction by Hank Hanegraaff and Paul L. Maier, and The Rule of Four by Ian Caldwell and Dustin Thomason."

I usually print out any e-reading, therefore defeating the purpose. But it's a new medium, and I'm glad to see it's growing.

Virginia
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Yes indeed, courtesy of The Bujold Nexus, a collection of filk songs on the Vorkosigan saga.

It was "Vorkoverse Genetics" had me laughing. The variations would kink even a Reetion brain.
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[Click the title to see the map.] Maybe everyone but me knows that, but just in case...

Started with Flash (to get scalable graphics), migrated to Snagit (to do captions and arrows) and ended in Paint (touch up). Not up to Alison's prowess with near photo realism programs or Virginia's graphics, but I am happy with the gist of it. Put brown and golden hearths nearest the shell as I figured they'd be closest to the palace during citical times and have snagged those hearths. Spread the gates in a matching pattern. Hope we haven't described anything to contrary anywhere! David -- if you catch this, please add "the plaza" to our growing gallery. (I know, I know, request #19 or something in the queue.)
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Been working on two articles on themes in SF for a forthcoming encyclopedia, grumbling, whining, regretting and repenting that it ever seemed a good idea at the time. But in the process, I have found some excellent resources for research into science fiction/fantasy, which I propose to hang up here so I can find them again when my memory fades (as it will) and I sign up to do something like this again. Hopefully not until I have enjoyed the summer and completed my current novel.

So without further futile maundering, I present:

• Selected Internet Sites from the New York Public Library, some of which deserve separate mention, like the Science Fiction and Fantasy Research Database
  
• Strange Horizons, an ezine with a number of interesting articles
  
• Fantastic Metropolis, another ezine.
  

There are more, but the acute pain at the base of my thumb is telling me to stop - I've been doing far too much editing using a flat trackpad.
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Found an interview of Alison on the National Review of Medicine. See http://www.nationalreviewofmedicine.com/issue/2004_02_28/feature01.html
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David has added some of the images I had asked him to feature in the graphics section of "Saga". Go check them out. The braid example looks particularly nice, I think. http://www.okalrel.org/saga/reference/graphics/braid.html

More of Alison's art work posted to the blog this spring should be appearing in the Graphics section now and then.
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Just discovered there is now a setting in Blogger that offers comments much like the 3rd party set up you did for Reality Skimming, Alison. Not saying we should switch, just noting it is possible. BTW -- finally did get around to watching Brotherhood of Wolves. Intense. See why the noble youth reminded you of Ditatt. Good spirited, but not the heaviest hitter in the bunch. :-)
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