You know with Will Ferrell you’re going to get silliness, and I mean that in the best way. Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy delivered… but I wish there was something in between the 5 minutes of a Saturday Night Live skit and the 90 minutes of a throwaway movie like this one. (I write…

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Thanks to Anil Dash, I got to enjoy Michal Levy’s visual imagination of John Coltrane’s Giant Steps (high bandwidth, Flash). You should, too.

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The last of my trio of recuperation reads two weekends ago was Sharpe’s Havoc, set in the spring of 1809. I loved the calm before the storm of battle. Sharpe’s band of Rifles, about a score of men, are left on the wrong side of a river in Portugal as the British are retreating, and…

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Despite my intent, I read Sharpe’s Eagle out of chronological order. To keep the months and year marching along, I should have read Sharpe’s Havoc first. Oops. Eagle was the first Sharpe book written, back in 1981, though it’s set in July, 1809. With this rip-roaring start, I understand why Cornwell kept writing about his…

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The only positive part about being sick two weeks ago was lots of reading time. I visited the library, picked up a trio of novels on reserve, and sank into the couch or bed the rest of the weekend. Sharpe’s Rifles moved faster as a book than a television movie. Set in Spain in 1809,…

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The eBIG session on Tuesday night went quickly, though getting back and forth to Concord took a while. While the group was smaller than expected (rain contributed there), I enjoyed listening to Eric Rice and Steve Tennant. My own comments were less formal, with no presentation, but with this group, that was fine. Eric went…

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Tonight, I’m speaking briefly at the East Bay Internet Group (eBIG) meeting of the Blogging and RSS SIG (special interest group) on Jumping on the Blogwagon. What’s the Buzz on Business Blogging?. I don’t have much formal to say, but I’ll try and make sure that I’m clear about the general ethos (“rules” is too…

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I’m no great shakes on a snowboard, but I enjoy the snow. I even feel, occasionally, the glimmer of why some people think it’s one of the best ways to pass the time. On Saturday morning, at Kirkwood, we enjoyed a sunny, windless day with few people on the slopes. The base is almost endless,…

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So I had dinner with an RSS reader last night… a friend, not an application. Thanks for stopping by, Ryan.

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I saw this Jon Stewart clip on bloggers on TV (not live, of course… TiVo). I’m glad someone took the, ahem, liberty of sharing it with the web. On a separate note, always glad to see another interview with Neal Stephenson, this time with Reason magazine. No hints of what he’s working on now, though.

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