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Weblogging Writing

Essential blogging

“Essential Blogging” has hit the streets, available at a bookstore near you. O’Reilly has put my chapter, “Advanced Blogger”, online if you want a peek. I haven’t received my copies yet. Hopefully soon. In the meantime, I’m finishing up the writing for the RDF book in the next few weeks. Time to weblog less, work on book […]

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Political

Iraq and goals

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I listened to the President’s speech on Iraq last night. I’m not surprised at the familiar refrain of Saddam Hussein being an evil man, nor was I surprised about the tie-in with September 11th. There was a strongly inconsistent message in the President’s speech that I’m a bit surprised no one seems […]

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Technology Writing

The Parable of the Languages

Archived at Wayback Machine, including original comments If programming languages could speak, really speak, not just crunch bytes and stream bits, they would have much to say that is both wise and profound. After all, the original programmers were philosophers, and programming languages were philosopher tools… In Babble Meadow, in the twilight hours between day […]