Disclosure: this post assumes knowledge of baking techniques and an appreciation for classic cookie recipes. There will be no mention of SOAP or REST except when I instruct you to wash up with SOAP before stirring the dough or tell you that you must take a REST before we decorate the cookies.
Following along my thoughts […]
Tagged by James and Amy. Five things you might not know about me.
1. I know how to build a latrine. When I was sixteen, I lived in a rural village in Mexico for eight weeks, where I helped the townspeople to build latrines with the goal of slowing the spread of intestinal diseases. I actually […]
January approaches; time to figure out what we want to make happen in 2007. Here are my goals for the coming year:
Get a book contract. That list of top technology books of 2006 really bummed me out. Where are the women? So maybe I can’t get a book published in 2007, but I bet I […]
From Ellen Langer’s On Becoming an Artist:
Mistakes, like all evaluations, are context-dependent. In one context a mistake is an error, while in another it can be a surprise advantage. Others have spoken to the dual nature of mistakes but typically in reference to grander events. We all have heard that “there is opportunity in chaos.” […]
My favorite book about writing is On Writing Well by William Zinsser. He says:
Soon after you confront the matter of preserving your identity, another question will occur to you: “Who am I writing for?”
It’s a fundamental question, and it has a fundamental answer: You are writing for yourself. Don’t try to visualize the great mass […]
Thanks everyone for all the congratulations and welcomes and good wishes on my new work with RedMonk.
Just so you know where you can find me online, here’s the rundown.
My delicious link posts will now move permanently to tech decentral at RedMonk, since the vast majority of them are technology related. You can follow my bookmarks […]
I am pleased–no, thrilled–to announce that I am joining RedMonk as an analyst. The bulk of my technology blogging will now happen at tech decentral, where I have some initial posts up describing what’s so great about RedMonk, what technologies I’ll be covering, and why I named the blog tech decentral.
You can subscribe to tech […]
Curse wildly.
Scream for your spouse.
Turn the MacBook over and pour all the excess coffee out.
Blot up what you can with paper towels.
Let it dry.
Feel relieved that it still boots.
Realize that a good portion of the keyboard is nonfunctional.
Curse some more.
Make a reservation at the local Apple store’s Genius Bar, and hope they can fix it […]
I suggested to Shelley that the reason her semantic web post didn’t appear on techmeme was because of blog churn (referring to her refactoring of her blogging across various sites) and not because of gender discrimination; she pointed out how I was wrong, and I stand corrected. But I think the concept of blog churn […]
Not a regular series because most Saturday nights I’m either out on a hot date or fighting off the horde of children I’ve produced, due to previous hot dates. Next Saturday night we’re going to The Magic Flute with some of our favorite neighborhood friends, week after that, back to the horde.
So here it is, […]
