Posts for May 2015

2015-05-23: git-pbuilder 1.34

Long time without a blog post. My time got eaten by work and travel and work-related travel. Hopefully more content soon.

This is just a quick note about the release of version 1.34 of the git-pbuilder script (which at some point really should just be rewritten in Python and incorporated entirely into the git-buildpackage package). Guido Günther added support for creating chroots for LTS distributions.

You can get the latest version from my scripts page.

2015-05-23 17:59 — Permanent link

2015-05-24: Catch-up haul

As always, even though I've not been posting much, I'm still buying books. This is a catch-up post listing a variety of random purchases.

Katherine Addison — The Goblin Emperor (sff)
Milton Davis — From Here to Timbuktu (sff)
Mark Forster — How to Make Your Dreams Come True (non-fiction)
Angela Highland — Valor of the Healer (sff)
Marko Kloos — Terms of Enlistment (sff)
Angela Korra'ti — Faerie Blood (sff)
Cixin Liu — The Three-Body Problem (sff)
Emily St. John Mandel — Station Eleven (sff)
Sydney Padua — The Thrilling Adventures of Lovelace and Babbage (graphic novel)
Melissa Scott & Jo Graham — The Order of the Air Omnibus (sff)
Andy Weir — The Martian (sff)

Huh, for some reason I thought I'd bought more than that.

I picked up the rest of the Hugo nominees that aren't part of a slate, and as it happens have already read all the non-slate nominees at the time of this writing (although I'm horribly behind on reviews). I also picked up the first book of Marko Kloos's series, since he did the right thing and withdrew from the Hugos once it became clear what nonsense was going on this year.

The rest is a pretty random variety of on-line recommendations, books by people who made sense on the Internet, and books by authors I like.

2015-05-24 16:44 — Permanent link