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Review of Half a King by Joe Abercrombie at SFSignal 0

Review of Half a King by Joe Abercrombie at SFSignal

My review of Half a King by Joe Abercrombie has been posted by the wonderful, bagel-loving JohnD over at SFSignal.com. An excerpt: ————————– REVIEW SUMMARY: The world-building is not as deep asBest Served Cold and The...

Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 2 0

Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 2

The week 1 post is here. Week 2 is five EASY RUNs with Monday and Wednesday off. This is the same basic schedule through Week 4. Week 5 adds a tempo run on Thursdays....

Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 1 0

Half-marathon training: Hanson’s week 1

This is the kickoff week, and the schedule starts on Wednesday, which is always an off day (this is good as I EXCEL at off days). There are only three runs this week, all...

What Brett Favre means to Packers fans 0

What Brett Favre means to Packers fans

I was born in 1961 and became a Packer’s fan shortly there after (reasons why at this link). I split my time with the Packers into four “eras”: Vince Lombardi, Bart Starr and Paul Hornung...

Half-marathon training – giving it another go 2

Half-marathon training – giving it another go

I’m starting my notes on yet another attempt at besting my half-marathon PR. The last two attempts have been thwarted by knee, achilles and assorted other issues. I’ve changed up a few things to...

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The Dragonbone Chair re-read – Part Three – Simon Snowlock

This is the last part of The Dragonbone Chair re-read. I may have gotten a bit over-zealous with maps and charts this time….but Tad made this section longer than the previous two so it...

Cloud Storage Options (with pricing table) 0

Cloud Storage Options (with pricing table)

There are several options for cloud storage with different pricing options and some slight difference in features. Pricing is changing quite a bit. The table below tries to show for a given amount of...

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The Dragonbone Chair re-read – Part Two – Simon Pilgrim

The names of the three parts of The Dragonbone Chair (Simon Mooncalf, Simon Pilgrim, Simon Snowlock) certainly show the progression in Simon’s character. In this second part, he is outside of the Hayholt for...

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The Dragonbone Chair re-read – Part One – Simon Mooncalf

It has been a long time since I re-read a book, and I do not remember since college re-reading one in the method I’m using for this re-read of The Dragonbone Chair. I’m actually going...

REVIEW: Simple Qigong for Health: Enhanced Edition with video 0

REVIEW: Simple Qigong for Health: Enhanced Edition with video

As a developer of enhanced eBooks, I notice it is easy to use too much media (an overabundance of non-germane videos, audio or pictures), or to not put it in the right places. The...