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<li><p><a class="reference external" href="http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0217579/">Jason and the Argonauts</a>, 2000; directed by Nick
Willing, written by Matthew Faulk and Mark Skeet. Not a complete waste.</p></li>
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<li><p><em>Solstice Wood</em>, by Patrickia A. McKillip, copyright 2006, Ace
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<li><p><em>The Fatal Fashione</em>, by Karen Harper; Thomas Dunne Books/St.
Martin's Minotaur/St. Martin's Press, January 2006. Using historical
persons as main characters is always chancy, and using them as main
viewpoint charactacters even more so, but in this series it seems to
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<li><p><em>A Walk Out Of The World</em>, by Ruth Nichols, copyright 1969; first
published by Harcourt, Brace & World; Ace Fantasy/The Berkley
Publishing Group, February 1986. A slight but interesting book from my
childhood. Oddly grim.</p></li>
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<section id="wednesday-18-january-2006"><h2>Wednesday, 18 January 2006</h2>
<section id="rpg-sales-down-in-2005"><h3>RPG Sales down in 2005</h3>
<p>Or so John Nephew <a class="reference external" href="http://www.enworld.org/forums/showpost.php?p=2724739&postcount=35">says</a>.</p>
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Storm Constantine; copyright 2005 by Michael Moorcock and Storm
Constantine; Pyr/Prometheus Books, 2005.</p></li>
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<p>More interesting statistics about <a class="reference external" href="http://bankuei.blogspot.com/2006/01/cash-money.html">author compensation</a> in the rpg
industry, along with sales figures from some Indie RPG <a class="reference external" href="http://anvilwerks.typepad.com/autodidactatlarge/2006/01/q4_anvilwerks_s.html">game</a>
<a class="reference external" href="http://lumpley.com/comment.php?entry=149">publishers</a>.</p>
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<li><p><em>A Feast For Crows</em>, Book Four of <em>A Song of Ice and Fire</em> by George
R.R. Martin; A Bantam Spectra Book/Bantam Dell/Random House, Inc.,
November 2005. Good, but depressing.</p></li>
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<li><p><cite>The Far Side of the Stars</cite>, by David Drake; Baen Books/Baen
Publishing Enterprises, October 2003.</p></li>
<li><p><cite>Dragon Hunter</cite>, by Charles Gallenkamp, copyright 2001; Penguin
Books, 2002. A very interesting biography of Roy Chapman Andrews, the
explorer and leader of the Central Asiatic Expeditions of 1922 to
1930.</p></li>
<li><p><cite>East of Midnight</cite>, by Tanith Lee, copyright 1977; St. Martin's
Press, 1978. An early Sword & Sorcery novel by Lee.</p></li>
<li><p><cite>Subterranean</cite>, by James Rollins, copyright 1999 by Jim Czajkowski;
Avon Books, Inc, June 1999.</p></li>
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<p>To get Chicken version 2.207 to compile with MinGW I had to change the
line in configure that read</p>
<pre class="literal-block">mingw_libdir=`mingw32-gcc -print-prog-name=ld | sed 's%/lib/gcc-lib/.*%/lib%'`</pre>
<p>with</p>
<pre class="literal-block">mingw_libdir=`mingw32-gcc -print-prog-name=ld | sed 's%/lib/gcc/.*%/lib%'`</pre>
<p>and copy <code class="docutils literal">posixwin.c</code> over <code class="docutils literal">posix.c</code> and <code class="docutils literal">uposixwin.c</code> over
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