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Burningbird

Burningbird Network RSS File

For those of you who want to subscribe to one RSS file that consists of updates for all Burningbird Network weblogs (sans the Wayward Webloggers, which is separate), you can use the Burningbird RSS file. I generate this file once every hour, pulling together recent entries from all of the weblogs. It features the ten most […]

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Just Shelley

Bright Copper Pennies

Walking down Main, as we would call our barely 5 block long main street that ran through the center of town, I tended to walk with my head down, gaze focused on the ground. This wasn’t because I was a shy child, or a quiet child, or I was being sulky or disrespectful. No, I […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

Caricatures and Shadows

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  I’m thinking more about the concept behind discarding weblog archives. I’ve been re-reading some old posts, some nice and some not so nice. Those posts that are a year or two old aren’t even recognizable. I’ve earned the sobriquet “Burningbird” honestly, as I’ve been nothing if not hot in much […]

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Just Shelley outdoors

Shortness of hair

I finally bowed to wisdom and hiking in hot, humid Missouri summers and had my hair cut short. Short, short – about 3 inches in length all around. At the hair place – not a fancy place, Sam’s or some such thing – the stylist really took her time, carefully checking the cut every few […]

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RDF Writing

RDF: Ready for Prime Time

Originally published at O’Reilly, and recovered from the Wayback Machine. Not long ago, Marc Canter, one of the early founders of Macromedia, talked about RDF and the Semantic Web in his weblog. Specifically, he wrote: “I’ve been spending more and more time trying to grok the RDF folks. I have to say I like what I […]