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Debate—Retro

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I woke up this morning and looked out the window to streets white with snow. Now I feel in the mood for the holidays. Not enough to shop or decorate or anything, but a winter holiday mood nonetheless. I went looking for my version of “Twas the Night Before Christmas” […]

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Close, very close

Down to my last few pennies, literally, and half a book to rewrite before my next advance when fortune smiles on the Very Worried: I just got a gig that should last at least a couple of months. Now if I can absorb all the new RDF changes into the book fairly quickly and get […]

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Writing

Real things

Enough tilting at windmills. In the quiet of the night, when the fires cool and tongues still, one can listen. Loren’s To find out what is true and About the size of a fist. Jonathon’s For a Dancer. No further comment. Go read. Awake to understand you are not dreaming It is not seaming just to be this way […]

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Article at Onlamp.com

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote a little quip for O’Reilly Network’s ONLamp.com titled Today’s Unix: New all over again. The article is related to the release of my newest effort for O’Reilly, Unix Power Tools, 3rd edition.

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Deer Mountain

Not far from Babble Meadow is another Magic place: Deer Mountain. However, unlike the Meadow where People are not allowed, you and I can tread the Mountain — but the Mountain has to invite you, first. You can pout and you can bring money and you can show your card that says you’re an Important […]