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Photography Writing

It’s not a doorway but…

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have been reading about the snowstorm in New England, and hearing about snowfalls of several feet, which can take forever to recover from in cities; especially Boston with its narrow streets and parked cars. However, Boston is only three miles long and unless you’re heading across the river to […]

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Books

The seductiveness of books

Mike Golby and I have known each other online for such a long time – I can’t even remember when I first read him, and he first read me. The similarities we share make a piquant counter-point to the differences. We don’t always agree, but among the many topics we do agree on is our love […]

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Writing

Biting fair

Sheila has been linking to and writing about some wonderful stuff lately. For instance, she links to this article about a story that implodes the myth that American IT workers are so much more costly than using offshore workers. I wonder how many other companies are offshoring their work without even once taking a glance around to […]

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Just Shelley

Glass half full kind of day

I am feeling particularly verbose today. Sun’s shining after several days of cloudy weather and it feels good coming in through the window. Zoe is stretched out on the desk next to me, turning her stomach to the sun like the brazen little hussy she is, every once in a while looking at me out […]

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Writing

Unix Power Tools in Japanese

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Unix Power Tools 3rd edition book I helped organize and co-author for O’Reilly was just published in Japanese, in a form of writing I believe is called Kanji but I’m not an expert in Japanese. Previously, I’ve had books published in Russian (Dynamic HTML) and Spanish as well as Portuguese and I believe […]