Archive for February, 2005
Another Cup
I just sent off a guest cup to The Year of Coffee to see if he will post it as a guest cup in his blog. The guest cup feature is a bit of genius, I think.
Things I Should Have Photographed
I was thinking that lists of things might make a good blog category. I think that lists are an underappreciated literary genre. They are so common, so personal, so localized that they have little relevance to anyone but the author. A perfect topic for a weblog!
I was thinking about this as I was driving into [...]Natural Selection
Now and then you realize that there are still some things that you’d never thought of doing before. You’ve done crazy things. So have I. I’ve jumped from an airplane, fallen in a crevasse, dumped my canoe. But I had a parachute. I had a rope. I had a life jacket. I’m such [...]
Impossibility
Dermot Cole said it in the local paper on Sunday. It’s the first time I’ve seen written in any mainstream publication. He was writing about the word, proficient, but I noticed another word. His point was that what most people think proficient is, and what the state benchmark tests mean are not the [...]
Strayhorn Launched
Starting off with a new look. Nothing exceptional, a bit simpler. The picture of the rocket is a mini-celebration demonstration because I learned to post images. But that doesn’t have much to do with the new WordPress upgrade.
I spent the better part of yesterday messing with the new WordPress version 1.5, Strayhorn. [...]Post Dumped
It’s not that bad, but I have to confess. I did a couple of things this week that I regret. I’m trying to get used to the fact that when I write things here, people might read them. I know. That’s the point. But there is only a very thin filter on my idea-generator. So [...]
Using Usenet
Now that I understand a little bit more about how it is organized, I may be able to put Usenet to work for me. I installed Thunderbird, which has an email client as well as a news reader. I used Google to search for the groups that I might want to subscribe to. Thunderbird [...]
Using IRC
This past week has taken me to some new corners of the internet I’d never seen. Communicating on the Web introduced me to Internet Relay Chat. I have no experience with IM or other direct messaging applications, so this was my introduction.
Technical issue: It took me a while to get oriented to Chatzilla. I spent [...]The Best
New to blogging, me. I suppose that any time we enter a new cultural space a certain amount of self-consciousness is to be expected. This past week spent doing blog research ( a fancy word for screwing off at work - not that much ’cause all hell breaks loose in a fourth grade classroom when [...]
Watching Bush
I watched the president give his State of the Union pep rally speech on television a little while ago, but I had to turn it off to go do something important, like open a beer or put a log on the fire (I think it was both) since it’s about -30 degrees F - I [...]
