Burningbird“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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are several webloggers I admire not just because of their facility with writing, but also because they stand by what they write. They may debate their words, but they don’t retract them, and rarely regret them. In particular, I’ve always liked Jonathon Delacour’s tenacity when it comes to his writing. His […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today, President Bush will address the nation with his rationale for a pre-emptive strike against Iraq. I would say that if the increase in noise of this issue is anything to go by, I expect to see a strike sooner rather than later. And I still don’t understand the frenzy […]