Misc. Publications & Interviews

	The March 2008 issue of Linux Journal has my article "IBM's Unfinished Symphony," which reviews IBM Lotus Symphony's second beta. This is my second time on the cover of Linux Journal, although this time I don't have the lead story.
	Rod Amis' "Lightning Strikes" podcast on December 5, 2007 included me in a discussion of the GNOME Foundation's involvement with the writing of the OOXML standard. Technical problems interferred with the show, but it was an interesting experience all the same -- especially as a case study of how the worst flame warriors freeze up when they have to talk to somebody.
	CFO Magazine quotes me in a story entitled "Spreadsheets are free," in which I talk about the strengths and weaknesses of OpenOffice.org Calc.
	My appearance on the "Lab with Leo" TV show.  My posture looks horrible because a camera was at my back, and I was told not to move and coming between the lens and the desktop on my laptop. Not exactly my finest moment.
	Samartha Vashishtha, a technical writer from India, published an interview with me entitled, "Technical Writers Must Learn to be Technical." Besides the topic in the title, I talk about my past career as a technical writer, and future prospects for the profession. I also slip in a plug for free and open source software.
	A partial video of "The Future of Open Source Software" panel at the Vancouver PHP Conference in February 2007. I'm at the end, looking fat, tired, and listless after being up for 18 hours without stopping to eat. The fact that I keep getting cut out of the frame also helps to keep me humble.
	Years after I left academia, Benjamin Szumskyj, a library technician and fantasy scholar from Australia, picked up my academic work on Fritz Leiber and took it where I had only dreamed of taking it, publishing some of Leiber's less known works and fragments. In  early 2006,  he cajoled me until I overcame my doubts and agreed to contribute to his anthology, Fritz Leiber: Critical Essays (McFarland & Company, Inc.). My subject: "The Allure of the Eccentric in the Poetry and Prose of Fritz Leiber." It was my first academic paper in over a decade.
	Robin "roblimo" Miller is editor-in-chief of OSTG, the company that buys most of my articles. He's also one of the inventors of online journalism and a shrewd survivor of the writing profession.. I was one of several contributors to Point and Click OpenOffice, writing Chapter 11. My contribution also appeared online in slightly different form as "Sharing files between OpenOffice.org and MS Office."
	Witches of the Mind is a reworked version of my master's thesis. Whatever else, the title is catchier than "Divination and Self-Therapy: Archetypes and Stereotypes in the Fantasies of Fritz Leiber," which was what my thesis was called. The book was nominated twice for the Mythopoeic Award, and remains one of the standard sources on its subject, fifteen years after publication. It continues to attract praise -- but no longert, I regret to say, any income. Recently, though, I've seen it showing up as a minor collectors' item for over five times the original price.