Year: 2006
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Book: The Paperboy
Pete Dexter’s The Paperboy was a step in a different direction from my recent reading. A novel about investigative reporting and family dynamics in Florida, The Paperboy mostly smolders, and almost catches fire. You feel the humidity of Florida in Dexter’s writing. The characters feel complete, with the deliberate exception of the narrator, the younger…
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Book: In Cold Blood
I was prompted to pick up Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood by the movie Capote. I haven’t seen it yet, and didn’t want to until I’d read the book. In a world where CSI strives to get just a bit gorier with each episode, and Hannibal Lecter’s “fava beans” quote is a joke, this narrative…
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What a busy week
When the kids are away, I’m supposed to be less busy. Hah. At least the World Cup has given me a two-day breather, while we wait for the quarter-finals. I might even find time to watch those games in full (hope so). Lots of blog backlog to clear… it will be brief, but I’ll close…
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Online to print, in rolling fashion
While at CNET News.com, I led some experiments in PDF production of online special reports. Multi-day reports are made available in PDF format, and placed behind registration regularly. We also tried selling some of these reports, with mixed success…but it wasn’t worth the effort. So today’s news that the Guardian (UK) is going to offer…
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Birthday for the girl
The party was ten days ago, but she ratcheted up the excitement again today for the actual day. Advice for parents of small children: go with the small cupcakes!
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Catching Joe Jackson, thanks to Craigslist
My original search of Craigslist for Joe Jackson tickets was clearly done too early. Thanks to a colleague, I was reminded to set up a search RSS feed, and as the date (this coming Thursday) approached, more tickets became available. A big thanks to Steele for the ticket.
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Too many red cards
The BBC applauds the US earning a draw today against Italy, although they didn’t agree that the Mastroeni red card was too much. Thank you, Ghana, for keeping this group very interesting all the way through Thursday’s matches.
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Data and formats: how much control?
I’ve had too nice a day overall to spend too much time teasing out something truly new on the topics of where data lives, which data is your data, what formats are most future-proof, and which companies may or may not have found a path for data and formats which both serves people best and…
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Upgraded to WordPress 2.03
I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.03 from 1.5, less than six months after finally switching. So far, so good. This post will help test. Let me know if anything appears awry. I also added a way to subscribe to full-text posts via e-mail, courtesy of FeedBurner. For those that are interested, enter your address at…
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Looking for one ticket to see Joe Jackson on June 22, 2006
I’ve search StubHub and eBay and Craigslist, without success so far. Joe Jackson will be playing in Saratoga, CA next week, on Thursday June 22, 2006. The performance is sold out, so I just posted my first “Want it Now” on eBay (eBay – Want It Now Post – Joe Jackson ticket one for Saratoga,…