BurningbirdWorking weekend this weekend. I’m finally finishing my writing for the UPT book after too long a break (with apologies to my long suffering and extremely patient editors). And I’m finally porting my weblog to Movable Type, hopefully finishing by Monday or Tuesday. I am partial to Blogger, and think it’s the best blogging tool to use when a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I’m taking the new MT weblog out for a spin. It’s new location is http://weblog.burningbird.net, existing as a separate virtual host to isolate it from my other web sites. Be aware that this is a test spin, only. The weblog doesn’t have the backend work finished, which is going to take […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The doctor is in. I’ve prescribed myself a daily walk along the Embarcadero, gradually extending the distance until I walk the Bridge to Bridge — Bay Bridge to Golden Gate Bridge and back. Over 12 miles. I figured I’ll make my goal by end of May. 2004. If you’ve never […]
We are a society that is progressively looking inward rather than outward. As we spend more and more time among concrete towers and experience more and more of the world through our computers, we’re relying less and less on our senses, on all our senses. We are quite strong visually or aurally, but even that […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. More adventures, but Golden Girl had to sit this one out. Today I went to San Francisco General Hospital for an abdominal CT scan. The scan was interesting, but the waiting room was more so. Once I turned in my paperwork at the X-Ray department, a nurse brought me into […]