Everything that does not have a home, just a big old stinking pile of posts.
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by Christian O. Harris I marvel that people still get regular use out of a small hack I started back in 2003, when I was first learning about RSS– Feed2JS keeps on humming. It ran a number of years on an Apple XServe in the […]
cc licensed ( BY NC SD ) flickr photo shared by miuenski “Who are we when we write online?” asks Claudia Ceraso in Some Thoughts on Identity- Particularly Mine. This timing is interesting, as tomorrow I am scheduled to talk to Claudia on Skype for the first time. We’ve connected online since 2007, but only […]
I cannot say much more than thanks for the wave of cookie making/sharing that occurred yesterday in honor of my mom (see http://bit.ly/cookielove). I saw activity everywhere from Calgary to Buenos Aires, from Vancouver to Florida, from Portal AZ to London, sharing with dog walkers, roofers, homeless in San Francisco, garage sales in Guelph. There […]
cc licensed ( BY ) flickr photo shared by cogdogblog One of my mom’s recently acquired phrases was her being “blown away” by something positive, and I am sure those would be her words at seeing what by internet friends are doing in her honor tomorrow. Thanks to Martha Burtis and Giulia Forsythe (I think […]
We carried the box out of the car and set it gently on those straps, suspended over the hole. I shall never ever forget that lonely creaky sounds those straps make when released, when Mom went into the ground. I spoke about how I was worried when I told mom in March that I had […]
(I found another old post, hey is running this blog?) Note- this is 1000% snarky satire. Place your sarcasm sensors on high…. I typically include pictures of myself in my blog posts. Why? Well doesn’t it explain itself? Why just look at me. I just love looking at me so much, its quite natural the […]
(I found this old post in my drafts, I guess I never clicked “publish”) I already tweeted this site, but the more I thought about how beautiful and fun it makes numbers, I wanted to share some more. Number Gossip is simple, and elegant, and makes it purpose clear: Enter a number and I’ll tell […]
cc licensed ( BY NC ND ) flickr photo shared by The Rocketeer A number of things these days I find interesting are ones where you say “I can try and explain but you really had to be there” This includes they way people have described the Unplug’d conference (I’ve met like half on my […]
Those photos are both early release versions of myself and my Dad. Today is the date ten years ago that he passed away; I had seen him a few weeks earlier. I did have my calendar reminder ping me earlier, but was reminded just ow as I was telling someone the story of Mickey, the […]
As a followup to the May 2011 version of Amazing Stories of Openness, I got an email a few weeks back from Wendy Farmer with a nice post script. Her story was about a blog she had created with her kids to write about dinosaurs and how they connected with a professional paleontologist (click through […]
