BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. David Weinberger wrote about turning down attendance at an event because the guest list ended up being all men. When I told the organizers why I wasn’t coming, they replied that they had invited three women who turned out to be unavailable. After our conversation they have invited some more women. But, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Recently, irritated by what seems to be an endless round of pushback against RDF, I made a put up or shut up statement in a post. Well, whether my irritation is justified or not, telling people that they have to put code down in order to have an opinion was not only […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Thanks to a note from a friend, I found out that in the last week or so, I’ve lost several hundred links and several hundred points in the link race at Technorati. I guess I had my 15 minutes of, well, I couldn’t call it fame. What could we call […]
I wanted to thank Daniel Mosquin for his kind words about my photographs, and also take this opportunity to point to his Botany Photo of the Day site. It’s really a terrific site to explore. In fact, I was exploring it, via Tim Bray when I had a note from Daniel, asking if I minded if he linked my […]
I’m being inundated with Google and other searches looking for information on giant squid or architeuthis dux, and people coming to my previous entries (such as this). This is such an amazing story, and lots of people are hopping up and down today. To keep up with the reports, check in with the SquidBlog and the other SquidBlog. One of […]