Frank Wu has just posted the art for “Melanie”, which is to be published in ROF.

Apparently, I got him to draw his wife naked…

(seriously, it looks nifty, and it’s got loads of stuff from the story, including the maths symbols, which aren’t random but are honest-to-good formulas, the kind my main character in the story could have been revising like mad. I love having that kind of little details)

Thanks to Doug, Frank and Brianna for the coolness

So, yesterday, I took the plunge and migrated.

I’d bought and been using a mac mini for a while, but hadn’t actually committed to making it my main writing computer, mainly because it involved transferring a lot of stuff I wasn’t 100% sure I could transfer.
But my venerable, four-year-old Windows XP laptop being on its last legs, something had to be done (the aforementioned computer has a broken keyboard, a DVD player that can’t read DVDs anymore, and was taking about 30 minutes to start, from the moment I turned it on to the moment I could launch Word or Firefox).
I do have another Windows laptop (the eeepc 1000H I bought a year ago), but the screen is way too small to do some serious editing on a long-term basis.

Hence the switching over to the mac, which took me most of Sunday and Monday evening.

For the curious, here’s the stuff I installed/transferred:
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