Recent content by Dareth d'Rahien

Michigan in the fall is lovely. I keep making the mistake of visiting in the dead of winter...

My dad lives in San Jose, so we may be concocting a plan to get him to take our son for a long weekend...

Statement from Harriet here. She sounds... displeased, to say the least.

Of further interest, Tor announced today that they will be including the entire Wheel of Time in the packet of eligible works provided to Hugo voters. Wow.

Thank you all so much! I feel honored and humbled by this and by the warmth and friendship I was shown throughout my very first live event. I've never been happier to be part of this community. ^^

The White Tower and the Seanchan both face the same issue: how to make sure that the vast power held by individual channelers doesn't cause huge problems. In both cases, there are means in place to control channelers and prevent them from doing harm. But: the Seanchan approach is to strip all...

Yeah, when I explicitly bypass the cache I get good data. When I don't... well, the request I gave you was when I was using the cache, but still had to go out to the server. Though I was getting a whole ton of cached 412 responses as well.

Alright. It started happening again. I opened up the Chrome toolkit and loaded a page, and found a few elements that were getting a 412 from my cache, and one that got a 412 directly from the server. So that's the one I'm providing data for here - the request was for...

I don't know why the 412 is happening in the first place, but "precondition failed" makes me think that there's some kind of hotlink-prevention referrer-checking going on (that I am failing the first time each evening I try to load the site, for some reason). For whatever reason, the site...

Seriously. I'm pretty sure Bayle Domon is basically Mr. Gibbs from PotC. Chin-beard and everything.

I just want to mention how proud I am of Elo for overcoming her needle-phobia to give blood. She's awesome. <3

Greetings! Great to see another first-time reader - and another Vorkosigan fan! (Have you read Captain Vorpatril's Alliance yet? Best of the series since Memory, in my opinion...) Two and a half books in... woo, do you have a fun ride ahead of you. :D (I just finished book 10, and it's...

I love it when new people show up with nicknames already ready! It's just so... convenient. :D

Hooray, I'm a Citizen now! Thank you all for welcoming me (and making this such a great place to hang around). I look forward to someday sharing that rum; in the meanwhile I've got a barrel of my own aging as we speak. Mmm.

Wait wait wait wait. There's a ter'angreal that produces rum? Why was I not informed sooner??