Even though I didn’t blog on Friday (sorry, decided to make a long weekend of it, what with the Deepavali public holiday on Monday), that didn’t mean I wasn’t busy.

Behold, a new interview on the Radio Free Bliss site. This time it’s Catherine Lundoff and — considering she has over 60 stories, articles and essays to her name — it was a bit of a challenge trying to decide what to ask her and what to leave out. Catherine has been a Gaylactic Spectrum Award finalist in both 2005 and 2008, has a terrific sense of humour, and … well, for the rest of it, you’ll just have to listen to the interview.

We discuss genre fiction and erotica, Minneapolis, the use of ice in the creative process. All the usual author stuff. In a twist, though, Catherine also edited a themed anthology this year. I asked for the Number One Tip for writers thinking of submitting to anthologies, so if you want to find out what it is, you’ll just have to go over to the Bliss site.

In other geeky news, I’m now running Compiz on top of KDE 4 on my machine. It’s sweet, although there seems to be a bug where Compiz mashes all my screens on the one workspace when I click back onto it from a different workspace. I like that my wallpaper changes every 10 minutes (a KDE feature) and, with the way I work, the customisable opacity of the windows (also KDE) is more a utility for me than a decoration, although it looks way cool as well.

Meanwhile, J is not so happy. Used to Unix systems, he expects each of his workspaces to be completely unique, right down to what apps are available on the Desktop, and is terribly disappointed that all workspace desktops are the same. I know it’s a slim hope, but if anyone can suggest a Linux-type AMD64-compatible distro that will deliver unique workspace configurations, please leave a comment. Having given Fedora 9 a spin (solid; yum configuration is not so obvious to Fedora n00bs), we’re about to install Kubuntu’s Intrepid Ibex on one of his machines to see how that looks.

Oh, and if the Metisse guys could get their act together and code/test/package Metisse for KDE 4 (the Compiz mashups are starting to peeve me), that would be awesome. I’d help out, but I left my coding days behind me many many many years ago.