BillSeitz

Male 46 from USA

Home on web at http://webseitz.fluxent.com/wiki

Interested in SciFi Adventure

DailyLit Reading:
Le Mystère de la Chambre Jaune active
Clarissa Volume 1 active
War and Peace active
Crime and Punishment active
Pride and Prejudice active
Madame Bovary active
Clarissa Volume 2 active
College Knowledge: 101 Tips active
Little Brother active
Emma active
The Canterbury Tales active
The Mysterious Affair at Styles active
Book Sampler: Science Fiction active
Don Quixote active
Many Thoughts of Many Minds (Quotations) active
Book Sampler: American Classics active
Clarissa Volume 4 active
The Three Musketeers finished
100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money finished
The Scarlet Letter finished
Good Experience Columns finished
Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom finished
Spanish Billionaire, Innocent Wife finished
Wikipedia Tour: Famous Poets finished
Wikipedia Tour: Greek Mythology finished
Best of Technology Writing 2007 finished
Free as in Freedom finished
Scroogled finished
Eastern Standard Tribe finished
The Pied Piper of Hamelin finished
How to Live on 24 Hours a Day finished
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes finished

BookLists

Favorites	6
Best Halloween Books	2	boo!
To-Read	1

Posts and Reviews:

Ideas - Price in new book RSS feed - posted 3 months ago

Good idea! We'll add it shortly.

Bugs - Wrong time - posted 3 months ago

At the moment, we make some assumptions about Daylight Savings Time applying everywhere (and starting on the same dates). Since Sidney does its DST at the *opposite* period of the year as the US, the times end up off.

Eventually we'll do it more precisely, but it won't be very soon. So you just need to manually adjust the time to get it just right.

Sorry for the inconvenience.

Eastern Standard Tribe - Just getting started - posted 4 months ago

which technology seems particularly futuristic to you?

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - what drives whuffie? - posted 4 months ago

I originally thought of it as explicit, kinda like a blog post/link/rating.

But...

"I pinged my Whuffie. I was up a couple percentiles -- sympathy Whuffie -- but it was falling: Dan and Lil were radiating disapproval. Screw 'em."

Does this mean that Dan and Lil's emotional state and its object were automatically "scraped"? Or that other people are watching this scene, and "rating" him? Or what?

Help - problem adding book roll to my blog - posted 4 months ago

I'm seeing it on your blog now. Did you do anything since posting to make it appear?

Eastern Standard Tribe - loved it enough to buy 5 copies for friends - posted 5 months ago

Actually, employees of mine at the time.

"Tribes are ways of getting things done."

Cory Doctorow - Someone comes to town? - posted 5 months ago

Yes it was added months ago.

http://www.dailylit.com/books/someone-comes-to-town-someone-leaves-town

Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town - Really freaky but I really liked it - posted 5 months ago

You don't get this mix, of the surreal with real-world public-policy, from too many people

Accelerando - one of my favorite books of last few years - posted 5 months ago

Esp the first third, where things are relatively close to current reality. Awesome vision of transitional period.

Scroogled - Funny but scary - posted 5 months ago

And all too believable.

100 Ways to Succeed/Make Money - 100 ways? I'm not even sticking around for #3... - posted 5 months ago

Some people choose to accept narrow lessons from people they don't in-general respect. Others choose to discount any signal coming from someone for whom they've flipped the bozo (or evil) bit.

Of course, even if you learn a lesson from a bozo, you don't have to give them public credit. But that has its own weird side-effects, too...

Down and Out in the Magic Kingdom - where in the future are we? - posted 5 months ago

So, we've got longevity/immortality.

And some sort of serious human interface to the net (assuming that "HUD" isn't built into glasses).

We have some amount of off-world travel.

Physical space (on Earth) is increasingly crowded.

But starvation doesn't seem to be an issue. (At least not for someone who's living with space shortages.) (Unless it's so natural to the narrator that he doesn't bother mentioning it.)

Pride and Prejudice - last two chapters - posted 7 months ago

Please forward an empty-fragment email to support@dailylit.com and we'll take a look right away.

thx!

Ideas - Blackberry Launcher? - posted 9 months ago

There's already a generic launcher that alerts you to having unread email.

http://www.software-for-blackberry.com/launcher.html

Do you not like reading your installments through email?

Another approach is install one of the free RSS reader applications. NewsGator is popular on many platforms, but there are many other Blackberry-specific options.
http://www.newsgator.com/Individuals/NewsGatorGo/Default.aspx
http://allrss.com/rssreadersblackberry.html

Or is there something else driving your interest?

Ratings:

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin		posted 3 months ago
Overclocked		posted 4 months ago
The Art of War		posted 4 months ago
Eastern Standard Tribe		posted 5 months ago
Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town		posted 5 months ago
Accelerando		posted 5 months ago
Scroogled		posted 5 months ago