BurningbirdSteve, in an uncanny knack for putting his finger on the real issues, touched on what I think is the key aspect impacting on the type of writing we do within a weblog — the audience. And this includes audience expectations. It’s difficult writing War and Peace and have it fit comfortably within RSS feeds focusing on […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I think it’s nice that Doc’s trying to organize an effort to save the looted Iraqi artifacts. However, his ideas of staffing a single television and radio station, and creating a web site to show the artifacts, all created for the purposes of recovering the items won’t be that helpful. Two […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. So what does it mean when the car wash place turns off the power when you’re half way through? I sat there, surrounded by apparatus that should be spraying, soaping, blowing, and generally getting my car clean. But nothing. No lights, no movement. I thought the power had failed because […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. So many excellent comments associated with my previous writing, Shadow Talk, as well as exceptional writing in other weblogs such as Jonathon’s, Dorothea’s, Aquarionics, Elaine’s, Laura’s, and (soon to be) Chris’s. I only wish I could do justice to the debates because there’s a rich story unfolding among all the different views, but I’m not sure I’m […]
Wonderful exhausting day spent on the trails at Shaw, taking photos of all the flowers. The place was alive with more than flowers: tiny lizards crawled across the path, and at one place a hawk flew overhead, screaming at us to stay away from its nest. Lots of butterflies and near the river, we ended […]