BurningbirdO’Reilly is celebrating it’s 25 year anniversary. That’s a lot of critters on a lot of covers. Congratulations to the many people I have worked with at O’Reilly, especially Simon, Tara, David, Andy, Linda, Ron, Edd, Nate, Todd, and Derrick I’m celebrating by finishing the first draft of the last book I’m writing for O’Reilly. Rah.
I don’t watch much commercial TV, so the ad I saw may be old to most of you. The TV commercial showed a group of men having lunch at a diner, one of whom is complaining about taxes. His companions are obviously uncomfortable with the talk, and a couple in the booth behind the man […]
Next week I’m delivering to my editor the complete first draft of “Practical RDF” for O’Reilly. Yeah, finally. No one has seen the complete TOC, including the tools, APIs and whatever used in the book and I thought I would provide a heads up before the book is released for public review. If you’re interested, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. We all know how much I like irony — almost as much as I like serendipity. In Meg Hourihan’s latest weblog posting she writes: It’s no wonder we’re seeing an increase in unemployment, people seem to have no idea how to apply for a job these days. Meg then goes on […]
wKen is running a once a month photo contest. This month, the photo must answer the question “I love _____”. My favorite is a photograph of a glass of Guinness against a backdrop of a sunny afternoon in a neighborhood bar. It tends to reflect my interest in photographs that reflect humanity without necessarily having a human present. There’s […]