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Writing

A Child’s Tale

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The purple dot lived in a land of yellow dots. Though rich of hue, it was mocked by the other dots, which caused the purple dot great sadness. The purple dot tried to change. It sat outside in the sun for days on end, hoping to bleach itself; however, all […]

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Weblogging

Jan 18 2002

Spent the day hiking in the hills north of San Francisco. Nice being away from computer for most of the day. Tomorrow, I’ll try to avoid ALL day. Just cuz there’s a phone, doesn’t mean I have to hook my computer up. Get online. Post. However, I did want to drop one quick note: Fishrush […]

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Writing

Lots of writing

Lot’s of writing lately. Most of it has been focused on the books (RDF and Unix Power Tools, both for O’Reilly), but I have been making time to write new articles for the BurningBird Network (long overdue). Some of the articles are technical; some are not. Of the non-technical articles, I’m writing about hiking trails […]

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Technology

Love and Kisses, Bill

Love and Kisses, Bill [1/17/2002 11:52:40 AM | Shelley Powers] Bill Gates sent an email (copy at the Register) about how the company is going to have to get tougher on security. I stole a copy of it from the Register to present here, along with my own crystal ball interpretation (not actual fact, you understand) of how […]

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Weblogging

Sneak peek at Radio

I thought I would sneak a peek at Radio 8.0 while Dave was at InfoWorld, but he caught me. Aside from one REALLY unfortunate mistake, made because I got a little too adventurous a little too quickly, Radio 8.0 is very usable. And the one mistake was more my recklessness than the tool. Just playing around, […]