BurningbirdAs happened last year with the Macworld conference, you might as well bag writing about anything else because this week will be Apple, Apple, Apple. Two big stories — a newer, longer TiBook and Safari, Apple’s entry into the browsing market. I liked some features of the new TiBook such as the backlit keyboard, which I think […]
Few things could have cheered me up more this week then to hear from my old friend Chris, otherwise known as the great Stavros the Wonderchicken, terror of weblogging and MetaFilter, both; and to read that he’s started his weblog again. Welcome back my friend. We Birds need to stick together. Kick butt, and take no prisoners.
AKMA has been having problems with his MT installation on Windows NT 4.0. My first reaction was to say, “Dump the trash and get a real OS, Linux”, but I realized that could be less than helpful. Reading the discussion thread where AKMA found his solution highlights how difficult it is to write about technology. Believe it or not, it […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Steve Himmer asks some good questions about weblogging community and sticky strands. In particular he writes: What do we [have to] do with the blogger uninterested in linking, or more specifically to this conversation, uninterested in joining a wider web of community? … The blogger who writes, even cites, but does […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. It wouldn’t be fair of me to push both comments and trackback without mentioning the downside of both. Well, the downside of comments primarily. It’s funny, but people think that comments are nothing more than a way for yay-sayers to stroke the weblogger, and this can be true with some […]