Author Archives: James Crowley

I Broke Twitter

Just went to use Twitter for the first time in months (I don’t even follow people, except through Google Reader), and the site is down from a DOS attack. Oh, well.

Hell’s Ground (2007)

I was inordinately pleased to learn, while working my way through the archives at the invaluable Horror-Movie-A-Day, that Omar Khan made a horror film. The often-wry reviews posted at The Hot Spot Online (A/K/A the most awesome ice cream shop ever) can be helpful in learning a bit about the context of Bollywood/Lollywood horror movies.

Orange alert. Orange alert.

Patrick McGoohan is dead. The Prisoner inspires Trekker / Browncoat levels of devotion in me. (When I saw last week that AMC is streaming the original series online, my first thought was, “which episode order are they using?”) It was my first exposure to science fiction TV other than Star Trek, and it shaped my [...]

All this took place in dark and fog.

Apparently 2009 is officially The Year of Serious Reading. In addition to working through the Personal MBA Reading List, I’ve just joined the Gene Wolfe Solar Cycle Book Club. (I even introduced myself, which is a step I very rarely take.)

New Palm device (possibly) does not suck

Gizmodo: Palm Stock Jumps 34.85% On Palm Pre News. I am pleasantly surprised that the new Palm Pre is getting such positive initial buzz. I’d long accepted that Palm was on death watch, and for good reason: “stagnation” doesn’t even begin to describe how badly they’ve botched product development this millennium. It will be interesting [...]