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Lots of writing

Lot’s of writing lately. Most of it has been focused on the books (RDF and Unix Power Tools, both for O’Reilly), but I have been making time to write new articles for the BurningBird Network (long overdue). Some of the articles are technical; some are not. Of the non-technical articles, I’m writing about hiking trails […]

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O’Reilly book cover spoofs

On the light side, take a look at O’Reilly book cover spoofs. I like a company that laughs at itself; too bad Enron figured that one out too late. However, why do they keep showing book covers with an eagle kicking my asp? I wanted a cute little fluffy kitten myself. Furry. Sweet. Big eyes. The kind […]

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Too much writing

Another day of 16-18 hours of writing…Burningbird is burnt to a crisp. Nothing but fried chicken. I’m going to take a break from the weblog for a few days and try and get some of my other writing caught up, and then be able to come back with a fresh zizzle and ping. I know, […]

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Doubletree hotel

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. One more quick blurb. My apologies to my readers for my sexist comment earlier in the day. Even though it felt REAL GOOD to say it at the time, I shouldn’t have. It was an inappropriate comment. And no, I don’t really mean it. As I said, there is guts […]

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Bombast transcripts

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was going to have a contest for describing what the new iMac looks like, but I really MUST focus on work and corporation filings this week or my editors and/or the IRS will came and take me away. To self: Take your hands off the keyboard, and back away slowly from your […]