Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I can’t say enough about the new Kindle ebook reader. I just received mine last week, and have already loaded about 30 books, though I’ve only had to pay for four of them. I debated quite a bit about buying the Kindle. I wasn’t sure about a first generation product, and […]
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Tweaks and Flakes
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If you only read the weblog in your reader, you’re missing out on the newest tweaks. A little more color, a few more excuses to use SVG. I love that SVG. SVG and ImageMagick…um…um…good. SVG, ImageMagick, and RDF–there has to be something in there waiting to be discovered. If you […]
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Community and Technology
I am cleaning out my weblog after all these many years. Seven years. Seven years of past discussions and writings, many of which no longer make sense when taken out of the context of the previous times. Every once in a while, though, I’ll find an old post that seems to highlight, not only what […]
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New Year, 2008
Once upon a time, when I wrote a story or a tutorial and published it online, it had a beginning, a middle, and an end. It wasn’t driven by artificial deadlines, or created from pieces scattered about in weblogs and in Twitter, and the occasional IRC or email. It certainly wasn’t dependent on whether I […]
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Time-lapsed memories
Sitting here, listening to a freshly downloaded Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas album, I’m reminded of when we lived on Grand Isle in Vermont. We lived in a rented house with a view of the lake from the living room, and the main road and hills from the large country kitchen in the front. You had to […]