Categories
Political

Thoughts on the State of the Union

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I watched the State of the Union speech last night. Some thoughts: Health Care: The most reaction during the speech occurred when the President mentioned health care reform. Unfortunately, his introduction didn’t follow through with any effective solutions. Rather than extend Medicare and Medicaid with a prescription drug plan, the President […]

Categories
Political

Burningbird’s State of the Union address

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Make Jobs Not War Thank you.

Categories
Diversity Writing

The perfect woman

Ladies! Ladies! Please stop your housekeeping for one moment and pay attention to some absolutely vital information. A wonderful new treat is heading to the bookshelves in February, ladies. I know that you’re all shivery in anticipation just from my introduction, but be sure to fold your towels and take the curlers out of your hair before […]

Categories
Writing

Who is Ray and why is he on my book?

I’ve always been partial to Amazon, but as an author I have to say that the company’s data systems suck. For instance, if you search on my name, “Shelley Powers”, you’ll find several of my books, such as Essential Blogging, Unix Power Tools 3rd edition, and so on. However, you’ll also find me on a […]

Categories
RDF

Grand idea #102

Thanks to Sean McGrath I found out about this discussion thread over at the Tag Soup discussion forum. It starts off with Tim Berners-Lee basically asserting that a URI represents a web page, or at least a physical resource: We know. Your “resource” is a vague thing which can be a robot or a web page. That vagueness makes […]