Falchion’s Edge

Over the weekend, I had the fortunate experience of attending a virtual “Meet the author” book club meeting held in Second Life. Cory Doctorow, the author of “Down & Out in the Magic Kingdom”, was gracious enough to come in-world (although he doesn’t “play” Second Life) to give an interview and to field questions based [...]

Right, on to the rest of the week (last week).A few days after the day spent with Nigel, I met up with MchWng, an old friend who incidentally is only free on school holidays even though she is working. And that’s when she’s not rehearsing for a new play. We don’t meet very often, sometimes [...]

I had a pretty interesting “holiday” week this past week. Actually it’s Nigel who is the one on holiday since I technically don’t get any unless you count those self-declared couple of days I try to squeeze in between modules when they are not overlapping.
Anyway, I was starting out the week pretty much the usual, [...]

I was talking to my friend CC from Second Life and she mentioned something that stuck me. Not so much so that it was surprising or unexpected, but in that it forces me to realize somethings that I may not want to.
She told me that from the first time that we had met, she had [...]

I have been scouring the Net for this book, Plowing the Dark by Richard Powers. I heard that it is similar to Snow Crash by Neal Stephenson in that it talks about a virtual Cyberworld where people worldwide log-on to and interact with others and their environment in real-time.
I’m a big fan of Stephenson [...]