BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. My roommate decided I needed exercise for my painful back yesterday and took me to the Sculpture Park near our house for a gentle walk. Aside from the fact that I was walking somewhat like Frankenstein’s Monster (arms rigidly at my side, stiff backed, movements accompanied by occasional non-verbal grunts) […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ben Hammersley, the author of the upcoming O’Reilly book on RSS, Content Syndication with XML and RSS has a new article out in the Guardian about RSS Newsreaders. A nice read on the subject. I don’t know what it is about Ben’s writing, but he makes technology seem so approachable and folksy. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea wrote two related articles recently, The Sickening Grunch and Running with it. The Sickening Grunch focused on the term ‘sexy’, and the whole scene of being made into a sex object by those who are, bluntly, the product of much in-breeding. Though there is much that I agree with in this […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Back is still quite painful, and has now been joined by cable modem. A case of new technology on old wires — for the modem, that is, not the back. Until the repair person comes out a week from tomorrow, my online access is going to be sporadic. Sam Ruby […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave has a long multi-part posting today about RSS as well as article that covers RSS and aggregators, which he blasts but won’t link to or provide a means for us to discover said article. He writes: A note to people writing articles about RSS-based news aggregators. UserLand wrote and deployed the first […]