what’s new

I’ve just posted a new book review: Review of Peter Fenton, Eyeing the Flash I also added some desktop wallpapers to gallery #6. Enjoy.

Check out the Die is Cast casino carpet gallery for two new galleries: Indian casinos and riverboat casinos. Sure, they each only have two casinos, but both have a panoply of carpet designs. I also added some Lake Las Vegas carpets. I had an interesting phone call yesterday that shows what a tremendous error in

I haven’t been posting much, not because I’m off on vacation, but because I’m in the middle of one of my busiest weeks in recent memory. Since last Monday, I’ve been doing a final read-through and edit of the mammoth 770-page Roll the Bones manuscript. I’ve really streamlined the book, cutting about 80 pages so

Don’t expect too many updates this week or next: I’m editing the manuscript for Roll the Bones. I’ve got to condense my 769-page manuscript into a lively, readable narrative without sacrificing the detail. This will take up most of my free time–I’ll probably take a few days off work, lock myself in, and plow through

If you’re in Rolla, Missouri next Tuesday and have some time to kill, come down to the Havener Center for a totally free lecture by your humble correspondent. From news@umr: Dr. David Schwartz, director of the Center for Gaming Research at the University of Nevada-Las Vegas, will present “A Brief History of Gambling” at 3

If you’ve been waiting to have a copy of Suburban Xanadu or Cutting the Wire autographed by the author, you are in luck. On Saturday, November 12, at 2 PM, I’ll be at the Reading Room in Mandalay Place, signing books. I’m going to be giving a short talk, answering questions, and signing books–it should

Cutting the Wire‘s first review is in–Nina Ayoub from the Chronicle of Higher Education scooped the world and got the first review of my latest book into print before anyone else. You can read an excerpt from the review here–you need to be a Chronicle subscriber (or resident at a university that is) to read

I’ve now checked the appropriate box and enabled user registration, so you can join the fun by commenting. My next challenge is to import by old Blogger entires at Casino.ptz, which will give me a nice archive of about 4 years of blogging. As always, comments, etc, are appreciated: email me if you’ve got them.

Thanks to some help, it looks like I’m getting the hang of WordPress. Things still aren’t perfect, but they are definitely looking up. For the old Greymatter index, try http://www.dieiscast.com/index2.html.

Die is Cast is under construction–specifically, I’m working on getting WordPress configured the way I want and then importing my old Greymatter blog entries If you want to access the old index, try http://www.dieiscast.com/index.html. As you can see, this isn’t going that smoothly. Anyone with advice, please email me: dave@dieiscast.com

As you can see, some of the changes I forecast last week are here. Let me know what you think of the new design and layout–I’m still open to more changes. If you’ve got the site cached, hit REFRESH. Otherwise things will look pretty funky. Changes include: – new color scheme – new professional section

I’ve done a minor site redesign, so If you’ve got the site cached, hit REFRESH. Otherwise things will look pretty funky. Changes include: – new color scheme – new professional section detailing my consulting, speaking, and executive seminars. – a new gallery: G2E 2005 Coming soon…RSS syndication, other changes. If you know anything about migrating