Just read: Whole Wide World, Paul McAuley

[amazon.co.uk]
The first of my haul from ConteXXt. In many ways, this is primarily a crime novel, though it is set mainly in a near-future, near-police-state, post-info-apocalypse London constantly monitored by an advanced CCTV network. An embittered cop gets involved in a murder enquiry, and treads on a few toes along the way. The computer tech is handled well, which doesn't really surprise me, given my knowledge of McAuley's background, and the legal reaction to that tech is pretty dystopian, though also worryingly plausible. It had me gripped pretty much from start to finish.

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For those hiding under a rock, Mozilla 1.1 is out. A Big pile of performance improvements, and a bunch of less-obvious feature enhancements. I've been using release candidates for a week or two, and they seem rock solid. Though if you're really paranoid about stability, or really like to play with skins, stick to the stable releases - there should be a new one of them along soon.

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I've been busy on my website(s) in the last few weeks. The FONTzine website has been whacked into something resembling standards-compliance, and has been updated with the new (old) FONT venue.
I've also set up a site all of my very own where I wibble on about anything which is bugging/interesting me.

EDIT: glrk. When I first posted, this, LJ went on a voyage to trip-out city and decied I'd posted it ELEVEN times. I think I've now managed to persuade it otherwise