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Why I’m writing more on Missouri

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave Winer writes that Daylife is in business. I vaguely remembered hearing something about it once, and then remembered, “Oh, yeah. That’s that Jarvis thing.” To make sure it was that Jarvis thing, I looked it up online and discovered this phenomenally self-referential post at Valleywag, that perfectly explains why I now write […]

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Writing

A critic’s value

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sometimes I enjoy writing; other times, I hate being a writer. For those of you who think it would be just wonderful to publish a book: think again. There’s few things that can make you more vulnerable than to work your butt off on something and then have it trivialized, […]

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A work in progress

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I apologize for late replies to emails and such. I’ve not been checking either email or weblog posts that frequently lately, and will only be doing so erratically for the next couple of months. If I don’t reply, don’t think me rude. Well, don’t think me rude only because I’m not replying […]

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Learning JavaScript on the streets

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I received my first author copy of Learning JavaScript this week and it’s now for sale at Amazon and elsewhere, though it may take a few days to reach full stock. O’Reilly really moved on this book in order to get it into the store shelves before the Christmas rush. Just in […]

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Not always good

Sometimes life is good, and sometimes it’s less so. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow understood this. Into every life, a little bug must fall. Lives of great men all remind us We can make our lives sublime, And, departing, leave behind us Footprints on the sand of time; Footprints, that perhaps another, Sailing o’er life’s solenm main, […]