The Northern Spy

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Summer Miscellany - (Found July 8, 2008 )

Domain marketing, sleep problems, leopard, iPhone ripoffs and business model problems, and a new book on web site accessibility are all grist for the mill this month.
http://thenorthernspy.com/spyJul2008.htm

The Northern Spy Archive - (Found July 8, 2008 )

All the Northern Spy articles are archived here by year and month.
http://thenorthernspy.com/archiveindex.htm

Best ePublished SF of the 2003 - (Found July 8, 2008 )

The Friends, volume two of The Interregnum wins EPPIE 2004 for best SF novel of 2003.
http://www.arjaybooks.com/E-books/index.htm

Shareware and Freeware Downloads - (Found July 8, 2008 )

The Northern Spy announces the opening of a new download service for quality shareware and freeware.
http://thenorthernspy.com/downloads/index.htm

Prognostications 2008 - (Found July 8, 2008 )

eBooks, standards, iSteve, and Billg are all grist for the mill as the Spy looks ahead to the coming year, signalling some product watches and a possible death watch or two.
http://thenorthernspy.com/spyJan2008.htm

In The Picture -- Part I - (Found July 8, 2008 )

The Spy discusses the Canon EOS 40D, his first new camera in over thirty years. Its configurability leads him to his ninth law, and he expresses doubt that the MacBook Air follows it.
http://thenorthernspy.com/spyFeb2008.htm

In The Picture -- Part II - (Found July 8, 2008 )

The Spy accessorizes his brand new Canon EOS 40D, brags on predicting the Blu-Ray triumph in the format wars, comments on phones, and AppleTV, gores the oxymoron of Microsoft open software, and doubts the Yahoo buy will fly.
http://thenorthernspy.com/spyMar2008.htm

Thin is the New Thick - (Found July 8, 2008 )

The Spy does colour commentary on the new strand-based computing from iSteve.
http://thenorthernspy.com/spyApr2008.htm

To Sleep Perchance To Dream - (Found July 8, 2008 )

Sleep problems with Macs, Palm, the iPhone, its SDK, and Rogers, WHMCS as premiere billing program--all are the stuff of dreams for the Spy this month.
http://thenorthernspy.com/spyMay2008.htm

Getting The Word Out - (Found July 8, 2008 )

The Spy dons his author hat to discuss two new word processing offerings in a long and storied line.
http://thenorthernspy.com/spyJun2008.htm