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Monthly Archives: September 2003

poetry and prose

I began my life with verse in the third grade with an ode to Dorothy Glover’s thick legs. In our gym class dodge ball variations, their slow grace struck me as the stuff of solidity and strength. Dorothy was a redwood, and we were all saplings in comparison. And when she pegged someone…my gosh, he [...]

Tried to get into work early

it didn’t work, though

Up late

having slept all afternoon, my sleep schedule is just about ruined.

The muse returns

Wrote a nice thick edit for next month’s issue in about 15 minutes.
Still have a column or two to write this weekend. Topic…? Who knows.

Misprogrammed day

We spent the entire day seated at our desk thinking about what we should write about “big government,” approaching the topic timelessly, from Founding principles.
We had a lot to say, we had very many sources at our disposal–current and historical budget numbers, a complete set of the Federalist Papers, the Heritage’s Founders’ Almanac, and a [...]

blather

I’m writing this post in a Windows text editor called NoteTab Light, via a Mozilla Firebird extension called Mozex. Mozex lets you use external applications, like this text editor, to view HTML source (though I like Mozilla’s source-handling) and edit textareas. It’s a nice idea, since, aside from its immediacy, writing in any browser sucks.
Unfortunately, [...]

Alan Cox (well-known Linux developer)

Alan Cox (well-known Linux developer) writes:
“Currently, the companies are moving programming jobs offshore. The huge move away from the USA is not entirely driven by pricing but also by patent litigation and risk. Companies create a US holding company for the intellectual property rights which licenses it to a non-US body to write the software [...]

Quote

“If we never make it back to California
I want you to know I love you
But my love is like a dark cloud full of rain
That’s always right there up above you”
– John Darnielle, Tallahassee
(Thanks: Angharad)

See anybody you know?

Hmmmmm…

Dear Catastrophe Waitress

Finally.
DCW is Belle & Sebastian’s new album and probably their best since If You’re Feeling Sinister…
That is, Stuart Murdoch took charge again, and while the album is very idiosyncratic, his songwriting pulls it off. Music-group-as-democracy just so seldom works, and why should it when one member of the group is just so talented?
Standouts, so far: [...]