BurningbirdWhen I followed the pointer to Oliver Willis’ Brand Democrat, that Happy Tutor provided, I didn’t know whether to laugh or to cry. This is about as absurd as changing the name of I69 because of it’s ’sexual connotations’. President Kennedy was shot and killed on this day in 1963. He was a good president not the least because he […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Have we lost the window of opportunity for intimacy in our writing? Did we have it once, but then we stood at the edge of change, and in one direction lay power and glory, the other obscurity and intimacy, and we chose the glory? Somehow when we stopped using Blogrolls […]
If I were a betting woman, I would bet that WordPress 1.3 (or would it be 2.0?) is releasing sooner rather than later. At least it looks that way from the code, though the developers are going back and forth on a couple of items. Even though I plan on doing my own development from […]
I had an extra day with my broadband coverage today, and I thought I would use it to the full to stock up on reading material, as well as put several things online. My Mac desktop is now littered with dozens of web pages that I’ve saved, like parchment skins in the study of a […]
It started with a chair. I had no comfortable chair in my room, but there was one not being used in the living room. However, the chair takes up more room than I had, so we had to move the computer table. The computer table wouldn’t fit where we moved it, and we had to […]