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Just Shelley Weblogging

Caricatures and Shadows

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.  I’m thinking more about the concept behind discarding weblog archives. I’ve been re-reading some old posts, some nice and some not so nice. Those posts that are a year or two old aren’t even recognizable. I’ve earned the sobriquet “Burningbird” honestly, as I’ve been nothing if not hot in much […]

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Just Shelley outdoors

Shortness of hair

I finally bowed to wisdom and hiking in hot, humid Missouri summers and had my hair cut short. Short, short – about 3 inches in length all around. At the hair place – not a fancy place, Sam’s or some such thing – the stylist really took her time, carefully checking the cut every few […]

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RDF Writing

RDF: Ready for Prime Time

Originally published at O’Reilly, and recovered from the Wayback Machine. Not long ago, Marc Canter, one of the early founders of Macromedia, talked about RDF and the Semantic Web in his weblog. Specifically, he wrote: “I’ve been spending more and more time trying to grok the RDF folks. I have to say I like what I […]

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Writing

Danny’s on at XML.com

Hey, I’m not so caught up in the debate excitement that I’m going to fail to note Danny Ayers first xml.com article, “Extending RSS”. Congrats, Danny! Excellent read.

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Just Shelley

Marbles

I was a real tom boy growing up, more interested in climbing trees then in playing with dolls. I remember getting a Barbie doll, once, and it was a real novelty at first as I tried to slip tiny little shoes on tiny little feet, and tight shirts over not so tiny hard plastic breasts. […]