Down to my last few pennies, literally, and half a book to rewrite before my next advance when fortune smiles on the Very Worried: I just got a gig that should last at least a couple of months. Now if I can absorb all the new RDF changes into the book fairly quickly and get […]
Category: Just Shelley
Real things
Enough tilting at windmills. In the quiet of the night, when the fires cool and tongues still, one can listen. Loren’s To find out what is true and About the size of a fist. Jonathon’s For a Dancer. No further comment. Go read. Awake to understand you are not dreaming It is not seaming just to be this way […]
On simmer
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Leave it to Dorothea to help me put the finger on my period of discontent. Today she writes: I find I have nothing in particular to blog today, at least nothing that I really care (or dare) to talk about. She then eloquently non-blogs about what she can’t or won’t blog […]
Article at Onlamp.com
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote a little quip for O’Reilly Network’s ONLamp.com titled Today’s Unix: New all over again. The article is related to the release of my newest effort for O’Reilly, Unix Power Tools, 3rd edition.
Can’t wave a sheet around…
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dorothea, while writing about gaming characters, wrote the following today: Do not wave a character sheet around yelling “But my character’s a sweet, easy-going chap!” when he’s just instigated an unnecessary catfight with the rest of the group. That dog so won’t hunt. Your character has to take responsibility for his/her actions […]
