We did a bit of re-arranging today, and moved the computer desk. During the move, I un-plugged the six-year-old Alcatel ADSL 1000 “modem” and switched the phone cord for a shorter version, since it was now closer to the jack. A few frustrating hours without internet access later, I switched back to the original cord,…

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I read Folksonomies – Cooperative Classification and Communication Through Shared Metadata after seeing a link from Peter Merholz, and then I read Clay Shirky’s Notes from ITP: Flickr-as-web-services edition. Nothing here is formally peer-reviewed, in the academic sense, but all of it gets reviewed publicly all the same. By the way, I’d choose between “tagonomy”…

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While in New York City last week, rambling around on my own for an afternoon, I went over to the New York Public Library. I feel confident I’ve been there before, but it felt like the first time all the same. I had no specific ideas in mind beyond checking out the reading room and…

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I’ve docked my O’Brian ship, as noted. Yet, I’m still reading about the Napoleonic wars from the British side, but this time on land. Bernard Cornwell’s Sharpe books are probably almost as well known as the Aubrey-Maturin books, so I thought I’d give them a try. My first entry is Sharpe’s Tiger. I had a…

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Time to clear the bookmarks bar, and close some of those open browser windows without losing the reason I opened them in the first place. Without further ado (’cause there’s lots here): Mark Glaser wraps up the year in blogging at OJR. Gets some interesting folks to comment, and predict. I do share Peter Krasilovsky’s…

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I won’t claim I’m back up to speed, but all the home email is read, the aggregator is showing only a day’s worth of new items, and I’ve got fewer than ten open browser windows. (I’m not a fan yet of tabbed browsing.) That means that with some focused time (ha!), I could be caught…

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I think I’ll be unplugged a few days of the next week. Wish me luck! And Merry Christmas.

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What comes around, goes around. I introduced Vin to the Orson Scott Card bolt of lightning known as Ender’s Game, and I shared my copies of Speaker for the Dead and Ender’s Shadow with him. But I didn’t know there are even more Ender novels, so I was pleasantly surprised to borrow Xenocide, which I…

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Now that I’ve finished Blue at the Mizzen, Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin have sailed off into the sunset. Yes, Norton decided to publish three chapters from the unfinished 21st book which O’Brian was working on before he died in 2000, but a score of novels feels like a tidy sum. I also have lots…

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From one documentary to the next, it seems. We watched The War Room last night. Though it felt topical with one presidential election recently finished, the documentary film was made in 1993 about the 1992 campaign of then Governor Bill Clinton. What little I knew about the film boiled down to the idea that there…

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