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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 […]

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Web

LoudCloud

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. When I first moved to California this year, someone who used to work at Netscape — and who I admire and respect — talked with me about working at Loudcloud, Marc Andressen’s newest venture. Two things stopped me from pursuing the job. First, the personnel person was a jerk. Second, after […]

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Weblogging

Weblogging and Status

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  I made my first posting today at 1:47:09 pm, talking about weblogging buzz and the fact that I had more buzz from my WSP discussion than the recent one on open source associated with John Robb of Userland. I was surprised to see a comment attached at 2:09 — normally […]