2003 March 13 Thursday. Added The Ghosting of Heineman Jubiladilia&, a fantasy story set in Chalakanesia.

2003 March 13 Thursday. Added a short story called An Alien in Japan. This science fiction story, an SF story about aliens a piece of fiction set in Japan.

2003 March 12 Wednesday. Added a fantasy story, The Warden of Jestabel Zee.

2003 March 11 Tuesday. Added a horror - fantasy story about recovered memory, Gap Music.

2003 March 02 Sunday. The bad news is that war is coming. The good news is that I have CNN. With this in mind, I wrote a new poem, Sex Metal - Sex metal zex metal zow metal zap metal - / Look, George, look!

2003 February 27 Thursday. Added a horror story, Live on Channel 10.

2003 February 23 Sunday. Posted a short story called The Transfer of Patient Twenty-Seven - a mainstream story written a while back, and so containing nothing even remotely connected to the present crisis.

2003 February 22 Saturday. Had the SiteLevel spiders come and re-crawl this site to update the "Search" function ... as of 2154 today, the site contained 249 documents and a total of 516,181 words, all of which should now be searchable.

2003 February 19 Wednesday. Added a poem, Dreamscape With Giraffes.

2003 February 19 Wednesday. The war links page has been redesigned recently to make it a more efficient instrument for clicking through to news, postings and opinion. I've started using it myself on a regular basis (I figure the best way to improve your website is to use it.)

2003 February 16 Sunday. Added a poem, Grafton in Spring.

2003 February 16 Sunday. Added the text of Acorns - a mainstream story set in the U.S.A. Partly about acorns, but mostly not. This story was written before George Bush somehow transmogrified himself into Darth Vadar, and consequently it makes absolutely no reference whatsoever to ... well, you don't really need the list, do you?

2003 February 13 Thursday. Nuclear war in Iraq: a man from the CIA shares his fears.

2003 February 12 - added a page about depleted uranium which has some introductory facts and a selection of links. Depleted uranium is a radioactive metal used in modern ammunition. The use of this weapon leaves the landscape contaminated by a substance which is, at one and the same time, both a chemical poison and a radiation hazard. Depleted uranium is the weapon of choice of the British and American armed forces, and will undoubtedly be used, and used on a large scale, when George Bush goes to war with Iraq, as he very shortly will.

2003 February 11 - I've updated my list of links to blogs to include a blog in Israel and a blog in Iraq, both naturally strongly focused on the upcoming war. Ironically, each of these blogs has a link to the other.

2003 February 11 - UFO Invasion - the Truth about Alien Abductions!!  Each year, millions of Americans are abducted by aliens. But why? This lightly fictionalized account of a TRUE STORY supplies the answer.

2003 January 31 - updated war links ... have been nosing around the Internet and found some stuff about depleted uranium, which may be the cause (or one of the causes) of the disabling illnesses so many American serivcemen have suffered since serving in the Persian Gulf War. The staggering fact appears to be that, out of every four American soliders who went to the Persian Gulf, one is now getting some kind of service-related disability pay. (Apart from depleted uranium, another possible culprit appears to be, possibly, exposure to low levels of sarin.)

2003 January 31 - added the poem Waterfall and the poem Still Life.

2003 January 29 - posted complete text of the science fiction novel The Worshippers and the Way and also the complete text of the fantasy novel The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster, both accessible through the novels page. Both novels are aimed at an adult audience and The Witchlord and the Weaponmaster contains some fairly graphic scenes of battle injuries and torture.

2003 January 17 - posted new science fiction story A Pilgrimage to Plaka Kalada. Also added a description of the contents of the newsletter.

2003 January 12 - posted new fantasy story The Secret History of Lord Dreldragon.

2003 January 11 - Revised prediction: a thirty percent chance of war on the Korean peninsular in 2003.

2003 January 10 - posted radically revised and expanded fantasy story Life and Death in Oolong Morblock (an early version of which was published in 2000 as Life and Death in Oolong Jalabar. Elements include life, death, life after death, ghosts, self-delusion, murder.

2003 January 10 - posted new science fiction story Quilting. Elements include terrorism, experiences causative of terrorism and a terrorist attack on the United States.

2003 January 10 - posted new science fiction story The Suicide Bomber. Elements include terrorism, suicide bombers, alien invasion.

2003 January 10 - posted new science fiction story Patriots. Elements include terrorism, American response to terrorism, SUVs and the ongoing war for oil, government surveillance, AI theory, modeling of human activity with computers, computer modeling as an aid to threat detection.

2003 January 09 - posted new science fiction story Bad Sex. Elements include media feeding frenzy, clones, cloning, John Milton, Paradise Lost, attitudes toward sex.

2003 January 08 - since the digital camera arrived at Christmas, I've been shooting snapshots, and have been incorporating bits and pieces of these in the site. Today I added a search box provided by an outfit called whatUseek, which you can find on the web by searching for "siteLevel". One of their software robots went spidering through the site to index it (very quickly, I might add - I was impressed) and reported that at this stage there are 176 documents and 97,292 words on the site. This service is advertising-supported, and this outfit (whatUseek) will index up to 1,000 pages for free.

2003 January 07 - added a link leading to the full text of my science fiction story Lost in the Moid which is on the Challenging Destiny site.

2003 January 03 - added a temporary five-page photo collection showing ten images of Japan at New Year 2003.

2003 January 01 - added a photo of the ritual mochi snowman which shows up in Japanese homes at this time of year.

2002 December 30 - updated the diary including my predictions for 2003.

2002 December 26 - got a letter from John Berbrich of Barbaric Yawp accepting my story Views of Texas. This reminded me of the first piece of mine that appeared in Barbaric Yawp, a vignette entitled Mountaineering Complex, which I went and placed on the website.

2002 December 25 - started writing in my diary about the political response to Aids / HIV and by the time I was done I had an essay-length piece of work.

2002 December 21 - added page of links to sites about war, nuclear war, the possibility of nuclear weapons being used in Iraq, and the morality of killing civilians in time of war. Some of these links are to contemporary news sources. I have added a date saying when each page was active - my untested assumption is that most links to newspapers and so forth will fail after a few days.