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This page isn't updated often enough, but
there's not a lot I can do about it... It's still worth looking over to get an idea of
just what is in this place, but it is about 2 years old as of June 2004, so
only use it as an historical tool. The BYTE matter ended honorably, and I now write a column for BYTE.com but I expect you knew that. If you buy a book from Amazon by clicking on the icon to the left, I get a small percentage. If you buy a book through BOOKS page by clicking on the book itself, I get a much larger percentage. In any event, buy STARSWARM. And Buy The Burning City by Larry Niven and Jerry Pournelle. Do so now...
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There is the Black September War page which describes pages on that subject. We have added to the Velikovsky Discussion and also added a page on the origins of the First Dark Age. Infantry in the Modern World: observations and a discussion. WORK IN PROGRESS: an updated page on work I'm doing. Some comments on Strategic Defense What kind of computer to take to college? See discussion in alt.mail. New reports on Viet Nam in the FPRI Reports section. See Winning the Viet Nam War and Who Were We in Viet Nam?
A really well done debate on Evolution in Alt.mail. There are other discussions in Alt.mail, and there are a lot of new REPORTS. New debates on the future of the military. What do you want computers to do? Discussion here. Two partial reports on my trip to Japan. [1] [2] There is a Work IN Progress page on what I am doing. This isn't "new" but it's new for most: there's a report on a visit to Mount Wilson Picture report on Writers of the Future Awards. This definitely needs updating, but at least now there is a search function. We have a photo-essay on The Corpse Plant at the Huntington Library. Thousands of Angelenos turned out to see a plant that stinks like rotting meat and only blooms once every generation... There is a bit of a flap about an article Norman Spinrad did about me, Space, SDI, and the Space Council. I've given it a page of its own. The discussion keeps expanding.
Two short photo groups: the Christening of Julian Elise Miller, and a short expedition by Niven and me to take cover photographs for The Burning City. A new TOUR GUIDE to this site; tries to describe what's here. Taiwan and the Two Chinas: Essay by me, and report from FPRI Good letter on Upgrading to Windows 98 SE with good advice.
The Debates section has been organized with a home page, and there is a new essay/debate on SMP and the Future of Computing. We are trying to reorganize with sub webs. Wish us luck. Still working on getting VIEWDEX sort of indexes the VIEW pages. View is my daybook/journal. Give indices to earlier pages of VIEW. MAILDEX an index to Chaos Manor Mail is now available. Previous include Maildex1, Maildex2, and Maildex3 Currentview and currentmail will always have those names. Note that this means links to interior bookmarks in either of them by that name will be broken at week's end when currentview is renamed to the proper sequential number and a new currentview page is begun. Similarly for mail, of course. Links to the page title will work, though. The REPORTS section has been organized. New Feature: Moshe Bar's Opinion, reprinted by permission; if you do Linux or want to you must read Moshe Bar. See the Reports summary page for more. His report on family Linux is priceless.
Problems with Internet Explorer 5 Beta, a report by Russell Kay A special report by Robert Bruce Thompson on cookies: what they are and when they can be an annoyance. With a reply, and discussion. My Death Valley Crash: what I did on my way home from Comdex. With Pictures
An odd exposition on the Dean Drive
Reorganized MAIL and VIEW for easier indexing. Special Reports by Robert Bruce Thompson: Digital Camera and Upgrading Old Kerby
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