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Beneath the Red Planet

There was a question on r/askscience this week wondering whether you could tunnel deep enough under the surface of Mars to find the sweet spot that would allow a human to live without a protective suit. They’d still need some sort of breathing equipment, obviously, but pressure and heat could, in theory, reach a comfortable level […]

Trajectory Book 2 Launch Day

Reports are coming in that Trajectory Book 2 is landing on Kindles all over the planet… Well hello thar Trajectory Book 2. pic.twitter.com/nkqhujJrMB — Justin Dolske (@dolske) June 7, 2016 Well, on Kindles owned by people named Justin at the very least (hi @justinmm2!). If you preordered, you should be getting a copy too. Book 1 […]

Trajectory Book 2, release June 7, 2016

Trajectory Book 2 v1.0 is now uploaded and standing by, waiting to be auto-delivered to your Kindle on June 7th, 2016. If you haven’t got a copy yet, you can get your own for the introductory price of $4.99US, $5.99CAN. You can still buy it on release day if you’re not into the whole paying-for-something-before-you-can-get-it thing. To […]

A couple of weeks with Audirvana+

What a week. Our house is now closed and we have gone fully nomadic. Next time I write here, I’ll be on the east coast for good and I truly can’t wait. While we’ve been on the road, I’ve spent a little bit of time auditioning Audirvana+ as an iTunes replacement. The short: I now load […]

Trajectory Book 2 Available for Preorder

Trajectory Book 2 is now available for preorder on Amazon Kindle (US, Canada), priced at $4.99 US. Full release is scheduled for June 7, 2016 and will be $5.99. I’d release it sooner, but still need to do a final read-through and cleanup plus a couple of minor additions. It’s clocking in at 125k words […]

Storage

I’ve been thinking about storage capacity lately. I had a couple of IO errors on my aging Synology NAS drive that caused a minor panic at the thought of losing all of my redundancy and archived media. At 6TB of RAID5 backing up all our photos, ripped DVDs and iTunes libraries, it’s a daunting prospect […]

Trajectory Book 2 Update: Almost There

Trajectory Book 2 logo

Yesterday, I dropped a little teaser tweet: #teaser Trajectory Book 2 is near… #kindle #books pic.twitter.com/7MdeSP4rce — robcee (@robcee) April 25, 2016 That tasty morsel means that last Friday I finished the major rewrites (aka PROJECT INFILL) and some tidying up around the edges. It was a bigger project than I expected and ended up introducing […]