Phoenix Rising

Ubuntu v9.04

OK, so I needed to test a Linux distro, why? Because, I am looking into a new shiny net-book, and a few happen to come with Linux… Now there are a lot of flavours out there, so where to begin. Well actually, not such a hard issue, since the ones I have been looking at seem to all use Ubuntu, and I have also been pondering the future of myself and a Pandora, which has also been seen running this one…. so Ubuntu it is.   Read more…

G.HO.ST

I have for many months/years been looking at various methods of making my computing mobile. I don’t mean trying to use a mobile device here, rather using a ‘mobile solution’ to hold all my various files, applications and information, so that I can grab what I need when I need it, wherever I happen to be – easily. And to make things interesting, I wanted compatibility to ’standard’ applications (if there is such a thing).   Read more…

John Carter of Mars

John Carter of Mars, the eleventh and final book in the famous Barsoom series by Edgar Rice Burroughs, is not actually a novel but rather a collection of two John Carter of Mars stories.   Read more…

Llana of Gathol

Llana of Gathol is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the tenth of his famous Barsoom series. It consists of four stories that were originally published in Amazing Stories in 1941 (details see below). The first collected edition of Llana of Gathol was published in 1948. It is the penultimate book in the Barsoom series and the last to be published during Burroughs’s lifetime.   Read more…

Synthetic Men of Mars

Synthetic Men of Mars is an Edgar Rice Burroughs science fiction novel, the ninth of his famous Barsoom series. It was first published in the newspaper Argosy Weekly in six parts in early 1939. The first complete edition of the novel was published in 1940.   Read more…