BurningbirdI thought I was lucky, getting only a mild case of flu and missing out on the misery Steve and AKMA and Halley and Loren and others have endured. I found out this morning that what I had this weekend was nothing more than a precursor for the real thing. I’ve spent the day alternating […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. A quick note — Tim Hadley wrote a very detailed careful analysis of the Creative Commons license from the perspective of webloggers in general, Movable Type specifically. In particular the section that relates to the permanence of a CC license is worth extremely careful perusal if you’re thinking of pushing the button […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Though my opinion will not be shared by the majority of those who read this, I greatly appreciated the article appearing in the BBC News, Is Google too Powerful. Not only did the writer, Bill Thompson, challenge this continuing nonsense about webloggers ‘replacing’ mainstream Captital-J Journalism, he also exposed the falsity of the […]
My two year weblogging anniversary is coming up, April 2nd. Two years ago on that day, I signed up for a Manila account at burningbird.manilasites.com, though I took a hiatus in the middle of the year due to my divorce and subsequent move to San Francisco. Some of the entries have been deleted but some are […]
Not long after I went to bed last night, my friendly neighborhood spammer changed the name he was using while sending his or her virus-laden emails and I woke this morning to 803 new emails with variations of failed delivery, thanks for signing up, and messages of rejection due to the presence of a virus. […]