Phil Pearson is talking about the project I’ve been working on for Broadband Mechanics the last few weeks. I’m not working on the Structured Blogging component; I’m creating a middleware server called Outputthis. A limited version of the service will be up for Tuesday for the Big Rollout, and then I need to add the rest: autodiscovery […]
Author: Shelley Powers
Saturday matinee: It’s a raging squid!
I watched the Japanese movie The Calamari Wrestler and it meets or exceeds all expectations when you consider the premise: wrestler dies and re-incarnates as a giant squid and goes on to challenge all comers in the ring. There is no pretense about the creature–it is obviously a man in a squid suit, with eyes that move […]
It’s a raging squid!
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I watched the Japanese movie The Calamari Wrestler and it meets or exceeds all expectations when you consider the premise: wrestler dies and re-incarnates as a giant squid and goes on to challenge all comers in the ring. There is no pretense about the creature–it is obviously a man in a squid […]
Slingshot
I still find the reaction regarding Mena Trott’s and Ben Metcalf’s little contretemps at Les Blogs to be very interesting. The concensus seems to be that Trott lost it, and Metcalf was cool under fire, especially considering that he was unexpectedly told to stand up during this conference. In comments to Metcalf’s post, Dave Rogers: Although I’m no fan of IRC backchannels […]
First snow
We’re having our first snow of the season today. The level is already at 2 inches and could reach 4. We won’t get what the Northest is expecting to get tomorrow, but I like levels of snow that dust your toes, rather than dust your nose. first snow The first snow of the year always cheers […]
