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Political

The Middle East conflict

I watched a gentleman on news last night. I wish I had caught his name because he had some of the most quietly brilliant views on the Middle East conflict that I’ve ever heard. If you read this and you watch KRON evening news in the San Francisco area and did catch his name, please […]

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Just Shelley

Earthquake test

Just as I finished the last post, the sirens went off in San Francisco. Not at the usual time at noon on Tuesday. I searched the fog offshore, anxiously. I looked at the Bay Bridge so close to my home. Then the security guard came on over my condo’s loudspeaker and announced that the alarms […]

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People Writing

I am nuts about Herb Caen

If San Francisco can be represented by one person, that person is Herb Caen. And this week he is being celebrated: It’s Herb Caen week in San Francisco. I wasn’t raised in San Francisco, but I know of Herb. And even if I didn’t know of “Herb Caen”, directly, I know of the type of man […]

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Weblogging

Introducing Evil Woman

I just happened on to the birth of a new weblog yesterday, Evil Woman. Since Evil Woman and I both like so many of the same weblogs, I have no choice but to add her to my blogroll.

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Technology

Stealth P2P

Found this thanks to Rogi: It seems as if a little extra functionality has been riding along with Kazaa when you download the file/music sharing software — P2P technology that will allow the user’s machine to be integrated into a true P2P distributed computing network. Well, that’s not such a bad thing — P2P is good. However, the problem is the people […]