From the monthly archives: October 2011
In case you still haven’t bookmarked the new site, well, hello! Here I am in your RSS feed. Tuesday’s entry is here.
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The reason, in case you missed it, is simple: I wanted to have more personal control over the design of the site. More than I could get from WP [...]
. . . or something like that. THE BLEAT HAS MOVED BACK to its old locale. I’ve made good on my threat. I think I’m done with wordpress, or any other form of blogging software. Oh, it’s not that it wasn’t easy; it was. It’s not that I couldn’t make it look clean [...]
Twitter went down on Thursday night and my first instinct was to get on Twitter and ask people on Twitter what they were doing to do, now that Twitter was down. It’s become part of the atmosphere. It’s a utility, like electricity and water.
And so ends a very unusual week. By that I [...]
My friend Rob has an excerpt of his recent column on Jobs here, and it’s a reminder that he may have gone gentle into that long night, but he didn’t go gentle into that prototype demonstration. I have the feeling he looked at the early drafts of the Apple.com homepage obit spread – he’d [...]
Sick. Worst is over. Worst came at 3:17 AM, when I woke from a strange dream, covered in the sheen of hallucinatory fever sweat, got out of bed, was struck by the chilly ambient temp of the room, went to get a glass of water, teeth chattering and limbs shaking, figuring: okay, well, dead soon. [...]
Hello. I have a cold. This is the bad day where you feel lousy and don’t do anything. Tomorrow will also be that day. Yes, I am gargling with Listerine, taking lots of vitamins and zinc, drinking orange juice, and avoiding over-the-counter medication entirely except for the nasal spray, which I use sparingly so I [...]
Because my dog craps I was prepared when my daughter threw up.
Makes me feel blessed and humbled and mortal and happy to have known what I’ve known.
Hmm. Doesn’t necessarily follow, does it. Back up a bit:
“I’m going to be sick,” she said. And we hadn’t had the pizza yet. Quick [...]
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