Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There are certain words and phrases popular among webloggers that I’ve grown to dislike over time. Well some I disliked from the start; others I’ve come to dislike only after many repetitions. Whether people continue to use these phrases or not, I don’t care–to each their own. But if we […]
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The words we use
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Robert Scoble changes his opinion about the China/MSN Spaces issue, and decides since his wife, son, best friend, Dan Gillmor, Rebecca MacKinnon, and several Chinese webloggers say he’s wrong, he must be wrong. I don’t know why this irritated me so much, but it has. Perhaps it’s the idea that opinions have a critical […]
Kicking funk
Today’s a really nice day–warm, but with a cool breeze and low humidity. The clouds are nice, fat, and fluffy white, against a dark blue sky and people smile at you without you even having to ask for it; even the birds seem to be singing more. This is good because I’ve been in a […]
It’s been a long time since I’ve indulged in any poetry at the site. Been a long time since I’ve haunted poets.org to look for just the right verse to suit a picture or a mood. This week, I oiled my inner poet and set it on its creaky way only to find out that poets.org has […]
Making do
As you may have noticed, I’ve re-designed my site. Again. Compared to the flames, the look is actually rather conservative, although I prefer to think of it as subtle. While working on a client’s site this week, I noticed that after staring at her pages for a time, my own site seemed, in comparison, very […]
