At any rate, I’m busy changing passwords and now I have to check my other websites to see if they are OK. I was meaning to upgrade WordPress at any rate, and thinking about changing to a new theme for the site before this happened anyway! I liked the dark theme but it did seem to lessen the interaction on the website. Things should be back to normal soon.

I’ve been so excited about this service. It is beyond easy to use. The great thing is that if you have old books and DVDs to give away, you don’t have to pay to ship them out. You go to the website, print out a label with postage, and the receiver pays the shipping.

I’m on a mission to promote them a little bit more because I’d just like more people taking my books and DVDs. (OK, I do get some free “points” through referrals, but no cash.) If there’s one downside to this service, I find that some of my books can sit there for a long time without getting taken. So sign up using my link here and then when I have something available and post it here, you can be the one to get it.

http://www.orbsandghosts.com

Eli Stone has become hands down my favorite new show, surpassing even my other new favorite Pushing Daisies. (Pushing Daisies may creep back up again, however, once I start watching it again.)

Jericho fans are pushing SciFi to pick up the series…of course, SciFi will probably do the stupid thing and ignore them. Once again, Bonnie Hammer is going on about expanding the network to reach more than adolescent geeky boys. I guess this is one of the reasons why they don’t have spaceships anymore?

Excuse me, Bonnie..I am a 30something female, relatively attractive (or so I’m told), who does yoga and also happens to like spaceships. Please stop stereotyping women by suggesting we need “relationships” to get into a show!

I am so itching for new spaceship shows that I’m thinkly fondly of sci-fi gone by. Even sci-fi I didn’t like that much. I used to find Space: Above and Beyond a bit too shoot-em-up and not enough aliens…but I’m really dying over here to see SOME SPACESHIPS for a change, and now I look back on the days of Space: Above and Beyond, Star Trek franchises, and Babylon 5 with much fondness. Ah, the 90s.

Finally: Welcome to our newest contributor, LarryJP!

I’m also excited to have a few new contributors coming on board. The first is Edwin McRae, a writer from New Zealand. You can read more about him here…welcome, Edwin!

I am looking for contributors to Closet Sci-Fi Geek. This would be a labor of love, because honestly, with the Google ads I’m lucky if I make a buck a month off this website. But it’d be a nice way to promote your website because I do get a little bit of traffic here (you are welcome, for example, to link out to your website at the bottom of each post you add).

I’m looking for contributors who are decent writers with positive energy and a sense of humor. If you take your sci-fi SOOOO darn seriously that you get pretentious and offended over stupid little things, then you would not be a good fit. You are welcome to reprint articles from your blog or website here, as long as they are sci-fi related.

I’ve mostly covered television and movies, but I’d love to have more book coverage as well.

Please drop me an email with some writing samples. Send it to geek(at)closetscifigeek.com with a brief hello and a note about who you are and why you would be a positive addition to the site.

Thanks and I hope to hear from you soon!
Stephanie

Please check out my new blog on green technology…all about anything intersecting the environment and technology, including e-waste, positive environmental trends in technology, alternative energy, etc.

http://www.greentechgirl.com

I am going to attempt to add a new entry every day for a month to get the blog going, so it’d be nice to have some comments over there. It is always lonely when you are just starting something up. Please stop by and say hello!

I have a bunch of websites, and I got an account with Dreamhost a year ago to test them out and also for the additional bandwidth. So half of my sites have been on Dreamhost for a year, and the other half (including this one) have been on the crappy webhost.

Well, Dreamhost has won out for being more reliable and affordable. I know some people who hate Dreamhost, but they apparently haven’t tried my other webhost (which will go nameless). Dreamhost isn’t perfect, but what webhost is? With their amazingly good prices, their generous bandwith allocation, and their commitment to the environment, I am now moving all my sites to Dreamhost.

The process will happen over the next week and this site may experience some downtime or strange errors while I get everything set up again. Thanks for your patience!

If you agree, take a gander at this petition and sign and pass it on:

http://www.petitiononline.com/newscifi/petition.html