BurningbirdIn the mornings I catch up on my weblog reading through Bloglines. I’ve developed the habit recently of reading full content feeds within the tool rather than clicking through. I feel guilty about this because I’ve been critical in the past about full content RSS feeds, and about reading entire posts in aggregators rather than […]
Woo, boys and girls, but I’m a hot property today. Not only do I have an invite from Ev to attend a Blogger party with several thousand of his closest friends, but I also received a geniune, semi-personal, group email from Tim O’Reilly–yessir the O’Reilly man himself–to attend none other than Web Conference 2.0 this […]
I have to take Zoe in today to get her teeth cleaned. I hate having to do this. She’s an older cat and she’s had seizures in the past and I worry every time she’s under general anesthesia. However, as the vet said, this is something that can’t be put off. But I hate doing […]
The APress book deal is off, an event long time coming. We’re just working out the details now about the advance. The whys and wherefores aren’t important other than this necessitates some changes in my life. I’ve just signed with a book agent (please don’t ask me her name, the relationship is new) to help […]
First published April 2002 and so apropos today. When two year old pain can sound as fresh and relevant today as then, we as a people are failing our lessons. “I want silence more than anything. I want everyone to shut the hell up so we can all hear the crying. I want everyone to […]