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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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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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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 […]

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Photography Weather Writing

It’s not a doorway

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 Harvard, you can walk to […]