Well here's my first journal entry. Will it be seen by anybody? Coming back to reading slashdot is like going back to grade school. Not in the sense that it's infantile, but in the sense that when I was familiar with this place it was long, long, long ago. However, slashdotters are the single biggest cadre among people who've bought my books & I would like to sell some more of them. As mercenary as that? Well yes, basically. We'll see. I know the place has changed & the old guard is l