Thanks for well wishing. The suggestion of tea was a good one, but unfortunately I can’t drink any acidic juice such as OJ, as it hurts my throat more than a little. Doing a bit of catch up. There were a couple of items of RDF I had to respond to over at Practical RDF, both […]
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Down for the count
I thought I was lucky, getting only a mild case of flu and missing out on the misery Steve and AKMA and Halley and Loren and others have endured. I found out this morning that what I had this weekend was nothing more than a precursor for the real thing. I’ve spent the day alternating […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Though my opinion will not be shared by the majority of those who read this, I greatly appreciated the article appearing in the BBC News, Is Google too Powerful. Not only did the writer, Bill Thompson, challenge this continuing nonsense about webloggers ‘replacing’ mainstream Captital-J Journalism, he also exposed the falsity of the […]
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On writing
I know I said this once before, but it’s worth repeating: Mama don’t let your babies grow up to be writers. Once you step over the line from being a writer who lives to write to being a writer who writes to live, you’ve entered Dante’s Eleventh Circle. The bad one. The one […]
I sent a note to the RDF Interest Group today, telling them about the draft of the book. I’ve already received some excellent feedback. Some people climb mountains. Others scale rock cliffs, or dive the deepest depths of the ocean. Still others race cars at 180 MPH, ride bulls, or sail across the ocean in a […]