Gray Wolf Blog

Picks up where Appaloosa left off. Not sure how often gun fighters quoted Rousseau, but there it is.

Resolution

Spenser knocks heads with a new age revolutionary.

Now and Then (Spenser)

Raw, visceral and honest. Won’t make Ralph Reed’s book list.

Ten Thousand Sorrows

Some interesting facts and history about the medal. The Mike Wallace commentary adds nothing.

Medal of Honor: Profiles of America’s Military Heroes from the Civil War to the Present

Normally I only care for a novel if the ending is good…There is quite enough sorrow and shame and suffering and baseness in real life, and there is no need for meeting it unnecessarily in fiction.

One of the more different Spencer novels. Good for an afternoon.

Early Autumn

I configured a Sql 2005 Maintenance clean-up task to delete all .bak files older than five days, but the historical backups were never deleted.

The only way I could get the clean-up task to function was to change the .bak extension to *.*. Now, all files older than five days are removed. Go figure.

Weird and disjointed.

Talisman

Open folders in Windows Explorer mode by default (i.e. with folder pane enabled)

When you double-click a folder, it opens the folder Window without the Explorer bar enabled (default setting). When you right-click on the folder and choose Explore, it does. To set Explore as the default action, follow these steps:

* Open My Computer window.
* Click Tools, Folder Options, then click File Types.
* From the list, locate the entry FOLDER with extension of (NONE).
* Click Advanced, select Explore, then Set Default
* Click OK and close the dialog.

A wandering, disjointed tale. Takes a while to get going. If you haven’t read anything by Price, I’d recommend Clockers over this.

Lush Life: A Novel

This book is a combination of unraveling sweater and car wreck.

Fatal Beauty