I am eating an apple. I am eating a red apple. I am eating a red Fuji apple. I am eating a juicy sweet, red and green Fuji apple. I am eating a juicy, barely blushed Fuji apple, which leaves a tart-sweet taste across my tongue. I am eating the apple, and the taste takes […]
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Like it says, just stuff.
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Power of One
Lots of discussion about long tails and links and what not, matched with more statistics than I’ve seen since college. I knew about Phil but thanks to Dave, I also found Adam and Sacred Cow Dung, who brings us the Sacred Cow Dung 500 Index, which is as good a rank list name as any. All this math and figuring reminded me […]
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Shall we dance?
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In 1996, the director Masayuki Suo wrote and directed a quiet little movie called Shall We Dansu (Dance). In 2004, an Americanized version was filmed, this time directed by Peter Chelsom. I watched both recently: the American version first, then the original. I liked both movies; the stories are similar in outline, […]
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Sleepless in St. Lou
I’m not sure why but every change of the season I usually have one restless night where I don’t get any sleep and last night was it for Fall. I did have a couple of very good books to read, and that doesn’t help — you don’t want to put them down, and next thing […]
I have several tasks that need finishing, and I’ve set myself a deadline to finish them. The projects include an overdue software documentation project (which should give hope to the poor soul waiting on it); an article on syndication feeds for O’Reilly; an outline of a presentation on RDF for XML 2005; a PHP nuSOAP interface […]