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boycott ’til you drop

“Coca farmers are often coerced into the trade and usually receive less than 1% of the retail price of a gram of cocaine. The Finns therefore began a campaign in 2002, entitled Huume Boikotti, which calls for everybody to eschew cocaine on the grounds that it...

del.icio.us innards

This is my brain on del.icio.us and I have officially stepped into waters too geek for me to understand. I discovered this at Foe Romeo, and basically it’s a graphic representation of the keywords that I have used to build my del.icio.us profile. The larger the...

school kids get chipped

“The rights and wrongs of RFID-chipping human beings have been debated since the tracking tags reached the technological mainstream. Now, school authorities in the Japanese city of Osaka have decided the benefits outweigh the disadvantages and will now be...

max finder voted number one

Found this out a few weeks ago, but just got around to updating my webpage today: Max Finder Mysteries, my monthly “you-solve-it” comic strip for Owl magazine, was voted as the “Best Regular Feature” by the readers. Owl is a great magazine...

plot secrets revealed

As I struggle to shape another Max Finder Mystery, I do what I always do: surf other writer’s blogs. And why? Because it’s easier than actually creating something and it reminds me that I am not alone in this painful delight we call writing. And sometimes...