Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Being one of those that are part of a steeply growing curve, a layed off dot comer, I found the article Silicon Valley Workers Head Home in the Australian IT to be very interesting. According to a source quoted in the article, there have been over 51,564 people laid off from DotComs…to date. I bucked […]
Category: Just Shelley
New City, New Servers
The Burning Bird Corporation is now open for business in beautiful San Francisco. What can I say folks, but I love this city! In addition, I’ve aggregated all of my web sites on to one server. Hopefully the move will go smoothly, but if you find pages missing or out of synch, most likely they didn’t survive […]
Bits of prose
A long time ago in a place far, far away, and long before I started writing articles and books on computer technology, I used to write poems. Well, I called them poems. Recently, I found a folder of poems and decided to put my three favorite online. I’m aware that this could result in a […]
New York, New York
It isn’t Fall without trees changing color, birds flying south for the Winter, and being in New York to speak at the Internet World conference — this time as part of the Webmaster Forum. However, this time, I stayed in New York for a few days. What an adventure. New York Cabbies The cab that […]
Every Person’s Math
Ask folks what class they feared the most in high school and college, and I bet you’ll find that “math”, generally, or “calculus”, specifically, is the answer you’ll get more often than any other. Yet math is really nothing more than a) the ability to apply specific equations and get consistent results, and then b) […]
