BurningbirdJust writing
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Well, now that I’ve had a chance to be a Melodrama Mama, more details. I hadn’t received my royalty check this month from O’Reilly and contacted the accounting department to see what’s up. Well, what’s up is that not only am I not getting a royalty check, enough of the Developing […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The purple dot lived in a land of yellow dots. Though rich of hue, it was mocked by the other dots, which caused the purple dot great sadness. The purple dot tried to change. It sat outside in the sun for days on end, hoping to bleach itself; however, all […]
Lot’s of writing lately. Most of it has been focused on the books (RDF and Unix Power Tools, both for O’Reilly), but I have been making time to write new articles for the BurningBird Network (long overdue). Some of the articles are technical; some are not. Of the non-technical articles, I’m writing about hiking trails […]
On the light side, take a look at O’Reilly book cover spoofs. I like a company that laughs at itself; too bad Enron figured that one out too late. However, why do they keep showing book covers with an eagle kicking my asp? I wanted a cute little fluffy kitten myself. Furry. Sweet. Big eyes. The kind […]
Another day of 16-18 hours of writing…Burningbird is burnt to a crisp. Nothing but fried chicken. I’m going to take a break from the weblog for a few days and try and get some of my other writing caught up, and then be able to come back with a fresh zizzle and ping. I know, […]