Happy day. Zoe’s Tale, a new book from John Scalzi, is on the way. He says, “I don’t consider it the fourth book in the Old Man’s War trilogy”. That’s good, because four books won’t fit in a trilogy. Well, maybe if that fourth book was very tiny. Then you might be able to squeeze it in somewhere between the other three. Or maybe fold it up and hide inside of one of the other books? I don’t know. I’m not an author, so I’ll leave that kind of thing to the experts.
Better is the news that he’s got at least a few other books queued up immediately behind this one. A very good friend introduced me to Scalzi earlier this year, and so far I’ve managed to read just two of his books. That said, I already consider him to be in the same league as Niven, Simak, and Heinlein.
Over the last week I’ve seen a *LOT* of ssh dictionary attacks on the new shell server. I’m really not interested in manually updating firewall filter rules every time someone rattles the door knobs, so that’s where DenyHosts comes in.
While it wouldn’t be too much work to script something that will handle this task, DenyHosts is especially interesting to me because of it’s Syncronization Mode. This optional feature allows for my local list of denied hosts to be updated based on the work of other DenyHosts users who have opted to contribute data to the project.
These guys are not friends. They should just beat each other with sticks and stop pretending that they’re on good terms. It gets worse with each episode.
The Heavy, a dirty sounding “Experimental/Blues/Funk” act from Bath, England are planning to release their debut album - Great Vengeance & Furious Fire - in November ‘07. For now there’s just the three songs on their MySpace page and this video.
They’re starting to get some radio play on KEXP, so I hope we see them tour on this side of the planet at some point.
