Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Imagine my delight when I woke up this morning and found the following comment attached to one of my old postings, Blast them all and let God sort them out.: I don’t expect Arabs to be humiliated. . .I expect them to be dead, deader than dead. God doesn’t need to […]
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Selective Hearing
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Debate is not a game one plays when one is bored or has little else to do. Debate is a way of people trying to understand each other’s point of view. At the least, it is a way of discussing points of view for an audience in order to convince […]
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Article at Onlamp.com
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I wrote a little quip for O’Reilly Network’s ONLamp.com titled Today’s Unix: New all over again. The article is related to the release of my newest effort for O’Reilly, Unix Power Tools, 3rd edition.
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The White Shoes of Technology
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. This week, the RDF Working Group released drafts of six working documents for the RDF specification. Six. That’s a whole lot of work. However, rather than getting a pat on the back with a quiet “Well done.”, the group has seen their effort catechized mercilessly. Joe Gregorio chronicles Tim Bray’s half-hearted attempt to […]
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Random acts of meanness
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Shannon writes, people are mean in response to a particularly nasty posting and related comments. She’s right: people can be mean, practicing random acts of meanness. Sometimes, the acts are deliberate — nasty little cuts inflicted from the safety and distance that this disconnected environment provides. Mostly, though, the acts aren’t deliberate as […]