RIP

David Eddings died yesterday, aged 77. I can say that he was the guy who got me reading fantasy - prior to my discovery of Pawn of Prophecy in the early 80's, I read hard science fiction only and thought that there were very clear boundaries between the two (but that's a whole 'nother story!). Sorry to see him go - I had always hoped for another series from him but it is not to be now.

Well it had to happen some time

Spam finally arrived in my junk e-mail folder - but just one piece, mind you. Not bad considering that I would usually have had about 400 or so arrive in that 10-day period. A reduction of 99.75% is not to be sneezed at!