BurningbirdI am playing on the server today, which means if you can read this now, you’re lucky. Expect slow access times and strange pages. Broken Things. In the meantime, Jonathon finally introduces us to his new friend, Reimi, a beautiful gray haired, green eyed lady. In fact, she looks a bit like my own lovely lady, Zoe. […]
Seventeen straight hours of working with RDF in PHP, Java, Python, and Perl, including working with half a dozen APIs. Writing about same. Reviewing 200 pages of Unix book. Only 800 pages more to go. The more I work, the farther I get behind. Light at the end of the tunnel? What light? Who took the tunnel? […]
Break time on the book. I’m currently working on the RSS chapters, and haven’t I been careful when discussing the history of RSS. I’m also finding that I like the RDF working group’s new specification split. Either I’m getting a feel for their reasoning or I’m getting rummy from trying to meet an editorial mark Monday evening. […]
I want to play. Really play, without deadlines hanging over my head. Without holding up long suffering editors. Free. Clear. Really play. For instance, lots of talk about Jaguar and I want to install this on my PowerBook. And I want to wipe my Dell laptop clean and re-install Red Hat sans the dual boot with Windows 2000. I want to […]
New tagline, by mutual dare with Dorothea. What the hey? I’m now going by Burningzilla and I have a blazing toad for an icon. (No, that is NOT a Jersey torch!) Now, if I can effect sweetness and light throughout all my interactions with others, my transformation into something totally unrecognizable as “Burningbird”, would be […]