Empires in the Sun: The Rise of the American West by Robert Gottlieb and Peter Booth Wiley is a clunker. I borrowed the book two months ago from my father-in-law, who warned me it wasn’t perfect. It was worse than that limited recommendation. The idea of looking at Western history through the politics of water…

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I often wake up before my kids. Sometimes, I get out of bed, come downstairs, sift through accumulated news and email, and type here. At every moment, I’m listening, wondering when either kid — or both — will be fully awake and no longer content to mumble away quietly. They cross the threshold of wakefulness…

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In 2001, the folks at Hypergene created a delightful thought piece, Amazoning the news. The presentation demonstrated the potential power in delivering the news with the same interactive threads that Amazon has woven throughout its commerce platform (and it is a platform). I read this piece three years ago, and I still harken back to…

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Earlier today, Mark Pilgrim took CNET to task for presuming to create YAML (Yet Another Markup Language). That was decidely not the case, but there was cause for confusion. The culprit? An old feed, not RSS, which was mistakenly listed on the CNET Download.com RSS page and presented as if it were RSS, like the…

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Matt Haughey encourages everyone with All Hail Bluetooth, a description of his recent phone upgrade. I have the same 12″ PowerBook, and this desktop Mac, but my cellphone is very 1999 (if that). I’m not in a hurry to switch, but I can see (more of) the appeal.

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Jon Udell writes about the lack of margins in electronic documents. His blog post doesn’t add much, which is unusual… he often explores a theme or a tangent more fully there, which I appreciate. Margins offer room for shared experience and interpretation. We’ve started using a Wiki as our shared project list and organic documentation…

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Rare enough, but got a really good picture of the boy and I from a few weeks ago.

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I’ve got both a blog and a Wiki going now at work, so maybe these rules will be useful. Skimming them, I see they are rules for externally-focused blogs and Wikis, but some things still apply inside the intranet.

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Think I have it now. Yup… now I just need to get things live.

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I implemented monthly archive links quite easily yesterday, thanks to this Radio macro for monthly archive links. Thanks, Tweezerman.

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