BurningbirdAll I’ve wanted to do for the past few weeks is sleep. As soon as the sun goes down, I’m ready for bed. I’m ready for bed now, and it’s only 7:45pm. It’s not the weather — Fall is my favorite time of the year, and the weather has been wonderful lately. And it isn’t […]
There’s something close and secretive about the St. Louis parks, an otherworldly quality that strongly appeals to me. Last week I took photos at Laumieir Sculpture park at dusk and I was the only person among the paths and the sculptures set in odd corners. Echoing my footsteps was the rustle of bushes and dead […]
“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 […]
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 […]
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 […]