Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I like Andrew Orlowski, though he offered me a writing job once and then yanked it. I don’t always agree with him, and I don’t always agree with how he phrases some of his material, but he typically has a good point. Take the recent Nine Inch Nails album release. Several […]
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Just writing
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Tasks, transcripts, and semantics
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m spending the rest of the week creating plug-ins that will XHTMLate WordPress. I’m not sure how far I can get with plug-ins, but the end result could be both interesting and useful. I still feel that XHTMLating WordPress is at least partially philosophy, as much as it is code. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I can’t say enough about the new Kindle ebook reader. I just received mine last week, and have already loaded about 30 books, though I’ve only had to pay for four of them. I debated quite a bit about buying the Kindle. I wasn’t sure about a first generation product, and […]
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Time-lapsed memories
Sitting here, listening to a freshly downloaded Trans-Siberian Orchestra Christmas album, I’m reminded of when we lived on Grand Isle in Vermont. We lived in a rented house with a view of the lake from the living room, and the main road and hills from the large country kitchen in the front. You had to […]
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Nick Carr’s The Big Switch
Not long ago Nicholas Carr posted a note on his weblog: the first 150 webloggers who left a note would receive an advance copy of his new book, The Big Switch: Rewiring the World, From Edison to Google. I received mine last week, and just finished reading it today. If you expect to pick up a […]