Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m finding it difficult to respond to Steve’s earlier posting on ‘learning to read’, because there’s so much to say about it that I find myself stuck at the gates, not sure which way to respond. In particular, he’s raised an issue I’ve found myself sensitive to lately: the constraints audience expectations […]
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Heading Out
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well, I leave in about 6 hours. I should go to bed. Not sure when I’ll be back. Not sure if I’ll be back. If not, I’ll miss you all.
Telling All
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Years ago when I worked for Boeing, I had to file paperwork for a government security clearance to work within the Peace Shield program. This involved writing down every address I’d lived in, all my previous jobs, my current friends, and family members. It also meant answering some rather invasive […]
Audience Matters
Steve, in an uncanny knack for putting his finger on the real issues, touched on what I think is the key aspect impacting on the type of writing we do within a weblog — the audience. And this includes audience expectations. It’s difficult writing War and Peace and have it fit comfortably within RSS feeds focusing on […]
What does this mean?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. So what does it mean when the car wash place turns off the power when you’re half way through? I sat there, surrounded by apparatus that should be spraying, soaping, blowing, and generally getting my car clean. But nothing. No lights, no movement. I thought the power had failed because […]
