BurningbirdI had an extra day with my broadband coverage today, and I thought I would use it to the full to stock up on reading material, as well as put several things online. My Mac desktop is now littered with dozens of web pages that I’ve saved, like parchment skins in the study of a […]
Yesterday, Matt Mullenweg posted a link to a weblog entry in the Ziff-Davis weblog Open Source. Matt and others, including myself, wrote some fairly critical material about the post because the writer seemed to confuse open source with syndication feed use: One problem open source advocates seldom acknowledge is the disrespect many people have toward what’s held in […]
Yesterday came and went and nothing from O’Reilly about my Emerging Technology Conference proposal, which signals that it wasn’t accepted. Yes, I am disappointed, as I thought the idea was interesting and even rather fresh–a variation on the all too common discussions on protocol and how one can market one’s new concept that seem to […]
The comment spammers now seem indifferent as to whether their comments show up or not. Their (or I should say ‘his’ since it’s one known person) behavior is more in the nature of a malicious act than anything else now. Good comments are now ending up in my moderation queue solely because the spammers hit […]
I am finding that there’s a sub-culture that exists within coffee shops. There are those who rush in and grab a cup of coffee, and still others who stop by for sweets for work. Now the lunchtime crowd is starting to come in. Amidst all of these people who scurry and scatter about are those […]