Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well, I was feeling sorry for myself earlier until my friends told me to lay off and ‘quitcherbellyachin’ — sort of. In particular, Loren reminded me that rather than being out hiking in the woods, or at the St. Louis zoo as I was today, I could be as he is — poor soul, […]
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Becoming a dead bore
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well, I’ve become such a dead bore, lately. Either writing on technology, or other stuff that lacks zip and zing. I should be writing about Chris Locke rising from the dead in his manic phase. Hey Chris, if you want to know about Krakens, holler, I have a story for you. Gary Turner has […]
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Sentimental Reasons
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon Delacour writes about sentiment and freshman photographers: When I taught photography, the photographs taken by first year students were—with very few exceptions—sentimental clichés. As an attempt to counter this, Jonathon and the other photography department instructors posted a notice that banned certain subjects in photographs the students submitted, such as closeups of […]
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Did someone say non-techie?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve been writing primarily about technology lately, though I want to assure one and all that this is NOT the focus of this weblog — it’s just one area of interest in my life. I do want to apologize to those who had subscribed to my RSS feeds, as I […]
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Consumer rights and RSS
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Yesterday was a disappointing technology day. I had hoped to use the position of devil’s advocate at the RSS-Dev group to see if we couldn’t get a firmer definition of what the group sees as its future direction, strategy, as well as specific reasons for use of RDF. I continue to see […]