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Writing

I’m not sure where

..but I came across Letters to an Unknown Audience some time ago, and have been enjoying it ever since. When I saw this site’s version of the ‘political maps’ (here and here) I thought it was past time to expos…no…introdu…nah…shout…oh brother, that’s overused…drop this site on all of you. Because. A taste: Some went unmarked because of the austerity of […]

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Writing

Elements of Poetry

I sometimes think that a poet is really a frustrated engineer. Or is it, an engineer is a frustrated poet? Researching what kind of metadata one could capture about a poem, I’ve found that there are a goodly number of rules and restrictions when it comes to poetry. More than I’m aware of from my […]

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Writing

The Historian

Born too late in a strange land, lost with love of a people you can never claim. Living a time you can never know. Touching flyleaf of book as hand of friend. Surrounded by plain walls that can’t keep you safe, from sepia faces with delicate tints. You walk streets you resent because your prints […]

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Books

Beauty and the Beast

There is one story for Kitchen I’m working on called “When Beauty becomes the Beast”. It’s about the CBS Documents and their impact on weblogging (not to mention weblogging’s impact on the CBS investigations). For some reason this subject saddens me a bit–as if we’re seeing the end of something that once was and we […]

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Writing

A return to writing

The next three days are going to be horrid, weatherwise, so I can return to writing. In addition, I’ve had a response from the MediaWiki developers and a solution to the problem with the wiki may be in sight, soon. I have a couple of essays on Smart Mobs, one using photos (natch), and a […]