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Just Shelley

The Letter

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I received a rare letter from my Father today. He doesn’t write too many letters now because his hand writing has become increasingly bad over the years. What with the stroke and all the cancers and the radiation overdose I’m glad just to be getting a letter, much less one […]

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Legal, Laws, and Regs Weblogging Writing

Licensed to weblog

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve added a Creative Commons License to the Burningbird Weblog. You’ll see it at the end of my blogroll. The generated license code embedded in the page validates as XHTML 1.0 strict as long as you remove the ‘border=”0″‘ attribute from the image. I’ve licensed myself as Attribution-NoDerivs-NonCommercial 1.0: Attribution: […]

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RDF Writing

Practical RDF Book Cover

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Todd Mezzulo from O’Reilly, the person responsible for marketing the Practical RDF book sent me a copy of the cover, which I’ve embedded below. Now, the book isn’t going to be on the streets until Spring, so contain your excitement…a little. (To be honest, I’m really excited about this book. […]

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Just Shelley Weblogging

Perils of YASD

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve had a weblog since 1995, my own domain since ’96. My first domain was yasd.com, based on my company name at the time: YASD, inc. YASD stood for “Yet Another Software Developers”, which I thought was a chi-chi clever take on YACC — Yet Another Compiler Compiler. Trust me, […]

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Just Shelley

I test therefore I am

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Returning home from my walk yesterday I ended up coughing so hard my head started to pound, and I could literally see stars. I awoke this morning feeling as if a steel band is wound, tight, around my chest. Between that and anxiousness about the new babies to be (who […]