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Just Shelley

I am a Romantic

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Is romance dead? I’m not talking about a trip into Hallmark, resulting in the dispersal of either quick wit or Profound Thought of the Moment. I’m talking about moonlight and roses, dancing until dawn, looking dreamily into each others eyes. Romance. Capital ‘R’. Movies from the 30’s and 40’s showed […]

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Weblogging Writing

Won’t be reviewing Radio

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I was in the process of writing a review of Radio for O’Reilly Network when I was aghast to see the publication of a smallish review of Radio by Jon Udell within this publication on Friday. As happens sometimes in a publication that has many parts, one part did not know what the other […]

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Just Shelley

To not have a child

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In a quiet moment of sharing, Jonathon said the following in a post today: Though I don’t believe in regrets, I have just one: that I don’t have a child. All my closest friends have children and every time they invite me to their homes, I feel a sense of gratitude that […]

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Just Shelley

My first and only hydroplane race

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. At the Ford Service Center waiting on my 5000 mile service and thought I would write a story into my nifty energy efficient wireless weblogging tool, and download to the web later. Chris asked for stories of pain. He is one sick puppy…probably why I like him so much. Well, I never […]

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Writing

The Writing Mystic

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There’s some form of mystic associated with writing professionally that, in some ways, I don’t understand. It doesn’t exist with, say, web development — there are scores of web page designers and developers who would be appalled at having to do what they do as a hobby, as a job, […]