BurningbirdThere is a great Center of Learning far away in a country whose name cannot be pronounced. It is a simple place made of simple materials, but it provides comfortable shelter for those who study there. However, not all that the Center holds is plain, for it possesses a beautiful set of bookends made out […]
An estimated 39,800 women will die from breast cancer in the United States in 2003. It is second only to lung cancer as a cause of cancer death among all women, and is the leading cause of cancer death in women ages 40-59, which so happens to be my age group. In pink rose I wrote about […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. St. Louis, Mo. Burningbird completed its first international transaction this week, with the sale of the threadneedle.org domain to an undisclosed overseas company. Acting as agent for the Bird, Malcolm Baker, otherwise known in financial circles as Baker’s Dozin’, was heard to say, “Well, that was fun. Time for a beer […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray has had a couple of essays on RDF, including an offer of a domain, RDF.net, to someone who invents an RDF tool he would like to use. I wonder if he likes poetry? I wonder if I’m interested in yet another domain? Tim’s pushback isn’t against RDF, which […]