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Call out to London

For being a person who loves to travel, I’ve not had opportunity to travel outside the country as I much as I would wish. The only place I’ve visited in Europe was London, during the Easter holiday weekend in 2001. I was charmed by the friendliness of the people, the wonderful architecture, and most of […]

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Media

West Side Story

We’ve had a delightful chat in the comments to the post about no singing at the XML2005 presentation. And though I sympathize with Charles about the use of “Somewhere” in an ad, I agree with Dan about show tunes being fun and contagious. I love Broadway show tunes, even those in the “King and I” ( Sorry, Yule). James mentioned a […]

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Social Media Weblogging

I’d call you smart

AKMA asked what tag I would apply to him from Dan Gillmor’s HonorTags. I do grow tired of offending people with my plain speech, but to use less now would ruin a fine and longstanding streak, so I’ll go for broke. I would if I could try to find something urbane and witty, not to mention delicously snarky […]

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Finger in the dike, thumb in the damned

Sam Ruby has asked people to publish a link to this post about the iTuned RSS 2.0 to generate enough noise to wake the dead. Or Apple, whichever comes first. I do admire Sam’s persistence in wanting to ensure that RSS 2.0 is and remains a valid syndication format. When asked why we should care, Mark Pilgrim wrote in […]

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Internet Just Shelley

Cornered

Tuesday I called Charter Communications to see if I can continue the high speed internet but cancel the basic television lineup. I was informed that I could, but it would cost 10.00 more a month. Since I’m already paying twice as much for Internet access as Charter advertises at the company site and on TV, […]