So now S&P has downgraded US government bonds from AAA to AA+.  The result is that people are stampeding to buy them. Perhaps they remember that it was the ratings agencies who gave AAA ratings to sub-prime loans, and S&P who rated Ireland’s debt AAA until April Fool’s Day, 2009, and Spain as AAA […]

  I’m pleased to report than Days of Atonement is now available as an ebook.   For Kindle, for Nook, and on Smashwords— which has it available in a multiplicity of formats, and whence it will eventually migrate to other platforms such as the Sony Reader and iBooks. The price is a modest $4.99.  Surely a […]

  Remember back in April when people were happy that the world volume of spam had decreased by a third or more?  Some of the more notorious botnets, like Rostock and Mega-D, were being dismantled, presumably with the aid of the governments of the former-SSRs that had been hosting them all this time. My spam […]

  This week’s news has to do with Turkey. Firstly, I’ve sold This Is Not a Game and Deep State to Pegasus Publishing in lovely, lovely Istanbul.  (I can hardly wait for my signing tour.) Nextly, Paul Witcover wrote a long, wonderful review of Deep State for the current Locus. Unfortunately it’s not available on […]