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People

Belief. Religion.

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date March 5, 2002

<edited; /> So much beauty when discussing personal beliefs, starting with Meryl’s declaration of I am a Jew, followed by thoughtful comments by Elaine, Steve, Mike Golby, and AKMA, tied together with another question posed to the Collective by Mike Sanders.

Belief. Religion.

When asked my religion I tell people that I belong to a religion that is tolerant, open, has a sense of humor and perspective about itself, never suppresses others, lives each day in the same spirit of celebration as every other day, practices respect rather than hymns, and focuses on doing good to others regardless of their beliefs.

I then slip away quietly as they are left to ponder what obscure cult I could possibly belong to.

Writing

Romance still exists

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date March 5, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

Jonathon blended yesterday’s posting on Romance, and the associated comments into a thoughtful perspective.

It takes skill to combine the topics of Romance and the movie Fahrenheit 451 into one posting.

Tiny gestures of thoughtfulness, making another feel special, respect, and a bit of magic. Romance still exists — it’s just wearing a different set of clothes.

Places

Nice Day

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date March 4, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I heard a rumor that the weather has been a bit nasty in parts of the country. Since we all know that I’m a sharing person, I thought I would share this absolutely beautiful spring like day in San Fran with those of you who are suffering from cold, snow, biting winds, and various other acts of Mother Nature going “Think you’re hot, huh! Well, take this!”

I went for a walk along my favorite beach, and grabbed a few pics for you all. One’s down below, and the others are Walk pic two and Walk pic three.

No, no. You don’t have to thank me for this act of sharing and generosity. Glad to do it.

Guess what! The Bloggers with Attitude weblog ring now has 28 member weblogs!

Tags San Francisco

Weblogging

Mr. Rogers Evil Twin’s Neighborhood

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date March 4, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I asked for and I received. Last week I wondered why someone didn’t create a weblog named “Mr. Roger’s Evil Twin’s Neighborhood”.

Well Chris, affectionately known as Stavros the Wonder Chicken as well as various other things I can’t print in polite company did just that. Not only did he create the weblog, he added me as an editor.

So folks I introduce you to the newest experiment in community publication:

Mr. Roger’s Evil Twin’s Neighborhood. From the Guy in the Red Leather Suit.

Technology Weblogging

Closing this generation of techblog

Post author By Shelley Powers
Post date March 4, 2002

Recovered from the Wayback Machine.

I closed TechBlog down and I’m keeping it closed. My technology is as much a part of me as every other aspect of my life — I’m not going to arbitrarily split it off. When I want to “TechTalk”, I’ll say what I want here, in Burningbird.

I have to jump on to two postings of John Robb’s: one on RSS feeds and one on what he calls the Next Generation P2P Systems. I’ll cover the RSS topic in this posting, the P2P topic in a posting later today. In fact, it will probably be split into a separate page as it’s not going to be small.

Part of the weblogging process to me is visiting each person’s unique site. The words and the surroundings form a unified whole that communicates more than just the words themselves. I like being notified when a person’s weblog is changed, and check weblogs.com regularly. But to strip a person’s thoughts and plunk it into a queue that gets spit out to me on this plain white background — this isn’t a true group forming and communication process, is it?