James Stewart

This year wasn't much of a year for blogging.

January: Sunday Bloody Sunday (embedded video). rx now has a lot of content on YouTube.
February: none
March: 'brutal neck-snap' 'very satisfying' (ok, so that was the title, but almost the whole post is a quote from an article)
April: I haven't updated for ages, and I can't be bothered to do a proper update here, so a bit of a ramble will have to do.
May: I've got new pictures on flickr.
June: none. To be fair I was traveling most of the month.
July: these [photos] have been up about a month, but I haven't blogged them.
August: An explanation for the A710 being discontinued: Canon has released the A650 and A720.
September: Shakespeare's On First (embedded video)
October: none
November: For lack of a better name, I'm calling this southwest minestrone.
December: All of the following are recipes from a tex-mex dinner I cooked last Saturday night: ( tortilla soup, cheese enchiladas, mexican rice, black beans )

I'm thinking 2008 may be the year of the return of the blog, or at least more web presence in some form. I doubt it will be Facebook, though I signed up for that last week.

Mini book reviews: The two most memorable books I read this year were The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie and Fairyland by Paul J. McAuley. I picked up the latter on the strength of its unique Gollancz SF cover art in the UK, the first time I've ever bought a book based on its cover. The story uses lots of standard SF tropes but puts them together in a satisfying, well-written package that never feels stale. Looking at the other Gollancz SF titles, I suspect you couldn't go wrong with any of them.