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Just Shelley

Experiences of a non-driver

Experiences of not having a driver’s license – II: When I was 19 my boyfriend decided that I needed to learn how to drive. Bryan was a fanatic about cars as well as being an absolute whiz with anything that has an engine: cars, vans, boats, hydroplanes, you name it. We spent weekends either working […]

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Just Shelley

Driving as a non-driver

Experiences of not having a driver’s license: When I was 21, a friend left her Volkswagen Beetle at my place when a group of us went out partying. This wasn’t one of the new classy Beetles, this was an oldie — the kind where they’d paste fur on it and call it a mouse. The […]

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Weblogging

Wired woman

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Wired Woman has now become one of my personal heroes. Of course, she already is, but she’s only reaffirmed it for 2002. Iron my napkins and the paper catches on fire.

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Legal, Laws, and Regs RDF

RDF patent dispute

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Over at the RDF interest online forum, at least two developers of implementations based on RDF have received a legal mailing from a firm representing Unified Data Technologies Ltd (UDTL), implying a possible patent infringement due to the use of RDF/RSS. The RDF working group is consulting with the W3C […]