BurningbirdI’ve decided to really get my money’s worth out of my various insurances, because I spent the morning in oral surgery and still a bit foggy from the gas and sedatives, and pain pills. There must be an unwritten contract for surgeons in St. Louis, because the oral surgeon was just as nice as the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I had to add a whole new category just to reference these two resources. First, an excellent summary of the recent semantic web discussions, annotated even, can be found at Themes and Metaphors in the Semantic Web. Thanks to Chris for pointing it out or I would have missed it. What I like […]
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 […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This is too tedious for words because I have things I need to be doing, but I would not be me, which would be remiss and inconsistent and therefore uncomfortable for you and that’s to be avoided at all costs (at least on a Tuesday, shaking your world being allowed […]
In response to Philip Greenspun’s ironic question/link bait: Why pretend to care about others when we have professional therapists? A friend criticized me for being unsympathetic regarding a concern of hers that I thought was irrational. She believed that a friend ought to care simply because another human being is apprehensive, even if that apprehension is not […]