by Katherine Villyard | Apr 15, 2012 | geekiness
As always, I had an awesome time at SQL Saturday. I heard at least two people say that the SQL community is full of genuinely nice people, and it certainly seems to be true. I followed a bunch of new people on Twitter and won a Kindle Fire! (By the way, if...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 13, 2012 | cons
I’ll be reading at WisCON again this year! May 26, 1pm, Conference 2, Concourse Hotel, Madison, Wisconsin. A chance to meet the writers and hear the work of some of the most exciting new talent in our genres. The readers of Broad Universe will drop you into...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 12, 2012 | life, the universe, and everything
I said that all would be revealed in the fullness of time. I have a new job. One with a less heinous commute. Which means, of course, that it’s time to get back on the writing horse. And the running horse, because working 40 hours a week + 4 hours a day...
by Katherine Villyard | Apr 12, 2012 | geekiness
This Saturday, I’ll be joining all the SQL geeks (including someone who’s been my friend since 1996) to listen to talks on SQL at the GSU campus in Alpharetta. I’d say “Be there or be square!” but it’s sold out, so, alas, if...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 18, 2012 | short fiction
Have an excerpt: Rumor had it that the Mirosians worshipped some kind of monster as a God, and that he was to be a human sacrifice. Ted lowered his eyes to avoid glaring at the bald green glare of his captor’s head, and found himself staring at his wings...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 17, 2012 | selling fiction
I just sent out five stories to various markets. I’ve been so crazy busy that I haven’t had time to send them back out until now. In fact, at one point I didn’t have time to bathe. (Fret not, it was for a good cause, and it paid off. All will be...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 14, 2012 | short fiction
I’m hoping this is close to the last draft of my bug story. It’s about 4800 words of insecty goodness! Um. Yeah. Trust me on this. Heh. In other news, I have a huge pile of stories that need to go back out because of commute hell. Maybe I should go do...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 13, 2012 | geekiness
If you’re like me, you have Patch Tuesday on your calendar. In fact, if you’re like me, you’re running something like this at home! with your linux desktop checking itself and your Windows desktop for available patches via Nagios! No? It’s...
by Katherine Villyard | Mar 6, 2012 | monitoring, scripting
I checked out Nagios Exchange, and didn’t see anything that checked the status of a job and used Windows/AD credentials/trusted connection. So I wrote this. It’s intended to run as an NRPE script, and doesn’t require anything that doesn’t come...
by Katherine Villyard | Jan 31, 2012 | sale
“Saving Alan Idle” will appear in an upcoming edition of Escape Pod. I read part of this story at both WisCon and DragonCon, and I always really enjoy this one in front of an audience. So, for those of you who heard me read it and wondered whatever would...