BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. AKMA goes for hernia surgery tomorrow and my best wishes go out to him for a speedy and trouble free recovery. I’m going for an MRI myself tomorrow, which I gather is a claustrophobic generating experience; however, they promised me legal drugs, so I’m okay with being stuffed into a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. We couldn’t protect the Iraqi people, the children and old people who died because of accidental fire as we liberated them. We couldn’t protect the unique and precious Iraqi antiquities even though the soldiers were begged for help and the US government was warned about the dangers of their loss. We can’t […]
The next month, from the middle of September until the middle of October, is the most beautiful time of the year in Missouri. The weather has cooled and the humidity dropped, and a slight breeze blows most days to keep the sky clean, and clear. The trees are in their richest green, their end of […]
Have you ever woken up in the morning and the first thing that comes into your mind is, “Of course”. Regardless of the doubts and the fears and the regrets, it’s as if all the possible futures had made their way through your mind in the night, each leaving an impression, nothing more. And everything […]
Joi Ito, presumably in response to this news, wrote the following about a possible Microsoft strategy as regards to Google, searching, and metadata: Google likes scraping html, mixing it with their secret sauce and creating the all-mighty page ranking. Anything that detracts value from this rocket science or makes things complicated for Google or easy for other people […]