Journal entries - August 2010
Arpia novel released and available (online)
I made a spontaneous decision a few days ago: as the Arpia novel has been ready for some time, and as it doesn’t look like literary agents in the UK want it, I’ll make it freely available online.
This led me to recall the existence of an “Espresso Book Machine”, an easy way for aspiring authors and others to obtain a printed version of a book, be it their own or one that is out of publication (but still with a digital presence). This machine can be found in Blackwell, on Charing Cross Road in London.
On 25 August 2010, I was in London to hand in a paper copy of my dissertation for my LLM, and I took advantage of the trip to London to order one copy of my book. When I receive the copy by post, I’ll be able to let you Londoners know whether you should consider ordering a little sci-fi novel from there – they currently charge 5p a page, which given the size of my novel amounts to £30… Definitely the most expensive novel I’ve bought!
I’m going to work on making the novel available in ePub and other formats (note: ePub now available), perhaps also on online e-book catalogues (if possible for free) and on other self-publishing print-on-demand platforms (hopefully not too expensively).
In the meantime, though, why not take a look at the Arpia novel page, and read through the first chapters or the entire book?
Legal Implications of Internet Filtering
Five years, eleven months and some 5 days or so after my very first lecture on law, I have handed in my final contribution to my six years of legal studies. As it is a work of some importance, both academically and personally, I publish it here.
Here’s the non-legal intro to show you what it’s all about. Or you can omit reading it here, and read it in the document itself: Legal Implications of Internet Filtering.
Aquaffic & “iTunes 8 mod” updated for iTunes 9.2.1
The iTunesque packages of Aquaffic and the “iTunes 8 mod” by Josh Janusch have been updated to work with iTunes 9.2.1 (at least, that’s the theory).
If you use Aquaffic or Josh’s mod, download the updates (and let me know if they work for you) on the iTunesque page.