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Writing

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 […]

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Writing

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.

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Photography Writing

Deer Mountain

Not far from Babble Meadow is another Magic place: Deer Mountain. However, unlike the Meadow where People are not allowed, you and I can tread the Mountain — but the Mountain has to invite you, first. You can pout and you can bring money and you can show your card that says you’re an Important […]

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RDF Writing

Practical RDF Pull Back

I’ve decided to hold on posting any more chapters to the RDF book web site until I have a completed first draft. I found that I couldn’t manage the tech review comments and questions and the writing at the same time. Normally I can multi-task, and this type of thing wouldn’t be a problem. However, […]

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RDF Writing

New chapter posted at book weblog

For those who are interested in reviewing the Practical RDF book, I’ve finally gotten around to posting a new chapter, Chapter 4: Reification, The RDF Big Ugly”. I had to rewrite the chapter to incorporate changes in the specification, and writing about reification isn’t trivial. The effort has slowed me down considerably and put me […]