Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Though at this time I’m running WordPress 1.02 on my main weblog, and hadn’t planned on adding more hacks until moving to 1.2, I did hear your calls– like the far off sad sighs of birds hidden among the dense growth of the forests I walk: We need comment preview! […]
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Meet me in St. Louis
Woo, boys and girls, but I’m a hot property today. Not only do I have an invite from Ev to attend a Blogger party with several thousand of his closest friends, but I also received a geniune, semi-personal, group email from Tim O’Reilly–yessir the O’Reilly man himself–to attend none other than Web Conference 2.0 this […]
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Hear the crying
First published April 2002 and so apropos today. When two year old pain can sound as fresh and relevant today as then, we as a people are failing our lessons. “I want silence more than anything. I want everyone to shut the hell up so we can all hear the crying. I want everyone to […]
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Web two, oh?
I find myself in agreement with Dave Winer and Marc Cantor about O’Reilly’s Web 2.0 conference, but maybe not for the same reasons. I don’t have a problem with a more traditional presentation format, but Web 2.0 sounds, frankly, closed door and elitist. It seems like Tim O’Reilly is forgetting his open source, just plain folks roots. What is it lately […]
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I knew this one was coming
Surety be damned, the hell if I’m going to see women made the scapegoats for Abu Ghraib. We’ve gone from this incident being one of frat boy behavior (and supposedly harmless) to blaming it all on women. My first reaction is: Since when did President Bush get a sex change operation? Buck stops at the top, people. Buck stops […]