A Dance with Dragons - George R R Martin

I can't say much about this book without breaking into a spoiler ridden rant that will go on for five pages, so I will just say it was awesome, it was worth the wait and bring on the Winds of Winter.

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Tapsteps for iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch - Learn to tap dance

Tracey Wilson has made this collection of videos demonstrating fundamental tap steps.

Learn to tap dance with videos designed to clearly & simply illustrate technique, balance and rhythm that are an essential foundation for any tap dancer .

Additional video packs are available for purchase.

Tracey Wilson�s musical theatre credits include: Billy Elliot the Musical, Capitol Theatre, Sydney. UK; Songs of Andrew Lloyd Webber, Guys and Dolls, Tutti Frutti, TILLY � the musical. London�s West End; FOLLIES, GIGI, The Ones That Got Away, Players Theatre � The Bills.

Concerts: Des O�Connor Live, UK Tour, Hat�s Off, Sydney Theatre Company, Helpmann Awards, Lyric Theatre.

For the film, Stepping Out, Tracey dubbed the tap sounds for Liza Minnelli and Julie Walters.

Co-producer/director of the short film Step in Time, awarded Best Musical at the New York Film and Video Festival.

So Tracey is an app now, but if you would like to see some of the other things she can do, this video has a nice selection:

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Mapping of The Ionian Mission Complete

My map of the events in The Ionian Mission is complete. From blockade in the Worcester, a return to dear Suprise and an encounter with the three Beys.

When I finished The Surgeons Mate, after an 18 month slog on that book, I decided to make a concerted effort to finish this one sooner. I am as proud as Lucifer (upon my soul) that my schedule of weekly updates has allowed me to finished this map in a year and a day. There was lots of guess work on this one, with fictional ports from the north coast of Africa to the Ionian shore, but I hope my logic has resulted in charts that reflect the events reasonably well.

I have linked to Charles Keller's wonderful map and article of the Torgud, Kitabi & Suprise engagement, as it was a huge help in the final stages of the book. Although I differ slightly with him on the location of that battle.

At this prodigious rate I will be finished in eleven years, so on to Treason's Harbour. Wish me luck.

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When your running emulator isn't showing up in the Android Device Chooser

This has been documented elsewhere for similar cases and is more of a note to self than anything else.

Occasionally I have found, while debugging, Eclipse will lose track of the running Android emulator instance. So the emulator is happily chugging away, but will refuse to appear in the 'Android Device Chooser' running device list. Because the emulator takes so long to start, I am loath to kill and restart it, which usually fixes the problem.

With a little bit of Googling I stumbled across someone with a similar issue, who was advised to try the following commands to resolve the problem:

adb kill-server adb start-server

The Android Debug Bridge documentation talks about the occasional necessity to restart the server when it is 'unresponsive', so this is clearly one of those cases:

In some cases, you might need to terminate the adb server process and then restart it. For example, if adb does not respond to a command, you can terminate the server and restart it and that may resolve the problem.

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Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West - Gregory Maguire

A very clever novel. Prose and plot that would probably stand on its own.

as if her form were knit with iron and whiskey instead of bones and blood.

Strangely, built on top of 'The Wizard of Oz' turns this book into something special.

The alien girl- she called herself Dorothy- was by virtue of her survival, elevated to living sainthood. The dog was merely annoying

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