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Just Shelley

I left my heart (bed, dishes, books…) in San Francisco

I received a letter from the storage company I rent a unit from in San Francisco — it’s raising the rate on my unit in February. I can’t continue with it so I have to figure out what to do with my ‘wordly goods’. Once I have a break in writing and screwing around with […]

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Technology Weblogging

Tiny thread, small needle

In The Third Generation of Weblogging I wrote the following about ThreadNeedle:   I discovered that my original concept was infeasible because of the space requirements and the forced centralization. Now, with trackback and increasing uses of other technologies, we’re starting to see ‘threadneedle’ take form, and we’re finding that what was wrong with my original concept is […]

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Political Weblogging

Route-About

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave is collecting links to a growing story about Blogger weblogs being blocked in mainland China. Eatonweb portal has a list of Chinese bloggers many of whom use Blogger. From this list, the About China blogger, leylop, writes:   Proxy Wow, I’m really excited ! Finally, I’m able to access by own blog and any other […]

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Weblogging

Suffer the little children

I want to refer you to two compelling, powerful essays, both related to a very difficult subject: child abuse. The first is Tansu by Jonathon Delacour. The second, written by Loren Webster and inspired by Jonathon’s work is The Simple Hell People give other People.   Hell is for Children They cry in the dark, so you can’t […]

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Political

North Korea from south of the border

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I do not understand why we continue to focus on Iraq, whom I think we all know, deep in our hearts and minds not to be a threat, when we’re faced with situation far more chilling: North Korea’s withdrawal from the nuclear non-proliferation treaty. I watched the Berlin wall come down and […]