BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m tired and should go to bed. Today was not one of my better days. However, my cat sensed that my day was poor and quietly curled up my arms, rubbing her head against my chin, purring like mad. I took her for a walk on our deck, and she […]
Recovered from the Wayback machine. The posting I wrote on Friday about RDF has triggered much debate (in posting and at xml-dev), which is a goodness. I think it’s also triggered much misinterpretation and misunderstanding, which is what happens when a debate occurs across threads of mailing lists and weblog comments. There has been summary attempts of the […]
Coming back from dinner tonight, in the grass next to one of the dumpsters was a white mouse. Not a small white mouse, a larger one, almost as big as a small rat. And its fur was luminescent and shiny— softly glowing against the dark wet of the ground. This is something you don’t see […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Imagine my delight when I woke up this morning and found the following comment attached to one of my old postings, Blast them all and let God sort them out.: I don’t expect Arabs to be humiliated. . .I expect them to be dead, deader than dead. God doesn’t need to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Debate is not a game one plays when one is bored or has little else to do. Debate is a way of people trying to understand each other’s point of view. At the least, it is a way of discussing points of view for an audience in order to convince […]