Since this is School Girl’s birthday week, there have been a lot of subjects for posts running through my head. Unfortunately, I can’t seem to get any of them out in a way that a) doesn’t make me burst into tears and run off or b) sound like whiny shite garbage. So, there are a couple of other things from the past week that I can write about (without the dangers of a) or b)).

There’s the Internet protest of the proposed changes to the New Zealand copyright laws. I wrote about it last week, and my site was black for part of yesterday and this morning (early). Apparently, there is some tentative good news: the changes have been postponed and may not happen at all unless the law is made more clear. So, it worked, at least for today.

Last week, Wil Wheaton released a collection of his writings, published by Lulu. I had thought about buying it, but can’t afford things like that due to Birthday Time taking up almost every available penny. Then he tweeted this, and I started screaming. “Ooh, me! I WANT!” So when he put up the URL (which is right over here), I went ahead and bought it.

I couldn’t pass it up for $5USD. And I can read it on the computer when everybody else is asleep. Or, indeed, on anything I want that will display a .pdf file – it’s been published without any DRM. Seeing as how some of us have had issues with sleep for the past two days – guess how I managed to hit “publish” the first time – this has worked out very well. So far I’ve read it 4 times since Saturday night.

Mr. Wheaton is a great, great writer, and Sunken Treasures is a good sampling of his style. My favorites are the ficlets – I think they would make great horror movies – and the pieces when he’s being a dad. Not a “hyphenated Dad”; we know a thing or two here about hyphenated parents and how much that hurts, both us and our daughter’s other family. Just a dad, passing on his love of all things geek to his two sons. Great, great stuff. I’d say it was the best damn $5 you’ll spend today. So, you know, go check it out.

Heavily edited to fix the Posting Fail. *facepalm*