The Jim Butcher Files: Dresden . Codex Alera . Cinder Spires & More

[basschick]

i liked peace talks a lot - i see a lot of complaints on amazon reviews, but for me, it was very entertaining and brought us back some of our favorite characters.

i also really enjoyed half of battle ground - the first half - and a little of the ending, but unsurprisingly (considering the title), there was too much battle description for my taste in the second half - not bad for what it was, but not my favorite thing.

oh, and the audible version of battle ground comes with a christmas short story that's funny, fun and a little heart warming

[pwalker8]

Originally Posted by basschick

i liked peace talks a lot - i see a lot of complaints on amazon reviews, but for me, it was very entertaining and brought us back some of our favorite characters.

i also really enjoyed half of battle ground - the first half - and a little of the ending, but unsurprisingly (considering the title), there was too much battle description for my taste in the second half - not bad for what it was, but not my favorite thing.

oh, and the audible version of battle ground comes with a christmas short story that's funny, fun and a little heart warming

The ebook version as well.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by basschick

the audible version of battle ground comes with a christmas short story that's funny, fun and a little heart warming

Originally Posted by pwalker8

The ebook version as well.

...and the hardback!

[bizzybody]

Jim Butcher is very very mean to his characters in "Battle Ground".

[Tarana]

We knew a lot would happen in Battle Ground and yep a lot did. Worthy listen.

[alansplace]

Soft announcement of a new Dresden book 'Twelve Months'...

Soft announcement of a new Dresden book 'Twelve Months'... Did I mishear or did no one else notice?
Battle Ground

https://thelegendarium.podbean.com/e...h-jim-butcher/

Finished listening to this podcast over the weekend.

Jim was talking about dealing with the fallout of Battle Grounds needing another book added to his schedule 20ish books followed by the BAT, and maybe he would call it Twelve Months. I am desperately in need of a book like this... but was I just adding wishful thinking to a joke or did someone else get this too?

Did Mirror Mirror just get kicked down the line?

[alansplace]

Oops...!

[alansplace]

Storm Front (The Dresden Files, Book 1)
by Jim Butcher
$1.99

[alansplace]

Side Jobs (Dresden Files) Kindle Edition
by Jim Butcher
$1.99

[DuckieTigger]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Soft announcement of a new Dresden book 'Twelve Months'...

What is really weird is that there hasn't been ANY news or updates since the last blog entry end of december of 2020. The upcoming works hasn't changed. Since forever. Over half of 2021 is over already, he should have some progress to update. Not even projected release dates.

Only this in upcoming:

DATES TBD (not this year, obvs)

• Cinder Spires #2: The Olympian Affair
• Dresden Files #18: Tentatively titled Twelve Months. (Mirror Mirror will now be book #19)

And it says "(not this year, obvs)", does that mean not even this year (2021), obviously?

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by DuckieTigger

What is really weird is that there hasn't been ANY news or updates since the last blog entry end of december of 2020. The upcoming works hasn't changed. Since forever. Over half of 2021 is over already, he should have some progress to update. Not even projected release dates.

Only this in upcoming:


And it says "(not this year, obvs)", does that mean not even this year (2021), obviously?

Well I tried to find any new info, and failed, so I emailed Pricilla Spencer and asked if she might post a reply here. So far no luck.

[alansplace]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Well I tried to find any new info, and failed, so I emailed Pricilla Spencer and asked if she might post a reply here. So far no luck.

Still no lucK.

Has anyone run into this?

Warning: Potential Security Risk Ahead

Firefox detected a potential security threat and did not continue to jim-butcher.com. If you visit this site, attackers could try to steal information like your passwords, emails, or credit card details.

[haertig]

Originally Posted by alansplace

Has anyone run into this?

Their webmaster made an error in configuring the SSL certificate needed for the site to accept HTTPS (secure) connections.

Their SSL certificate is for CommonName=www.jim-butcher.com

They did not specify an alternate name of jim-butcher.com

Indeed, if you go to jim-butcher.com you are redirected to www.jim-butcher.com. However, during that webpage load before the redirect you encounter the mismatched CommonName issue. Thus you receive the warning.

The warning is telling you, "Hey, you said to go to https://jim-butcher.com but when you hit that website, it claimed it was www.jim-butcher.com, which is not where you said you wanted to go. So I'm going to warn you about this discrepancy."

The webmaster should have entered BOTH www.jim-butcher.com AND jim-butcher.com as valid domain names. This error would have been present sing May 29, 2001, the date the certificate was created.

This is trivial to fix. Takes two minutes. Reenter the corrected data and request a new certificate, and install that. But the webmaster for the site is the one that has to do it.

Note that if you tell your web browser to go to https://www.jim-butcher.com that you DO not get this error message. However, you DO get other, different, warnings that some parts of the website are not secure.

My guess is that the website used to be HTTP (non-secure) and they decided to make it HTTPS (secure) - since that is what most web users expect these days. People are used to seeing that little "locked" icon next to the URL input field of their browser. But the person configuring HTTPS didn't exactly know what they were doing. And the fact that the problem has been in existence for two months (since May 29th) - maybe even longer - further indicates that this person doesn't exactly know what they are doing, given they haven't even noticed that the problem exists.

In this case, unless the website asks for credit card info or other personal stuff (and you type it in!), then it probably doesn't matter if it's HTTP or HTTPS, assuming you are a basically competent web user and don't do things like download software or run scripts from unproven web sites (and an HTTP website is definitely "unproven"!) These days, most websites are not functional without scripts, so many people run "script blocker" browser add-ons (or use the capability to block that is built in to the web browser).

[haertig]

Interesting! On a whim, I went to jim-butcher.con using Chromium web browser (that's like Google Chrome, except before Google added all the tracking and spyware).

I did NOT get the certificate error. And when I inspected the certificate, it had a different issue date than the one that displayed in Firefox (only one day difference, but should be identical).

So I don't understand what is going on. I have not run into that before - different browsers showing different certificates. Hmmm... I'll have to do some research and learning to expand my knowledge on that.

[binaryhermit]

Originally Posted by haertig

jim-butcher.con

Since when is there a dot-con TLD. If only they could force all criminal activity to that TLD and DNS servers could blacklist it.

(The problems with such an approach are enumerated by https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc3675 albeit in the context of forcing all sexually explicit content to a hypothetical dot-sex TLD)

Edit: Got autocorrected to dot-com and didn't notice until now