Scan This Book!

The New York Times has just published an excellent article on the scanning of books - not just Google's current effort, but the principle of the thing. It's a must read for anyone interested in reading, writing, publishing, and/or copyright.

Site Hacked!

If you were trying to view the main page of my site yesterday or today, you might have noticed it was hacked. Congratulations, oh brilliant hacker who managed to deface a completely innocent and unprotected web-site. Your ability to take advantage of a well-publicized weakness in phpBB leaves me underwhelmed in the extreme.

One unfortunate byproduct of the hack attack is that the old site (though not the original site) has been disabled. I was planning to take it down eventually anyhow, but the hack attack has brought about its demise sooner rather than later. Thank you, Mr. Hacker.