Big news in the Web 2.0 world today. Google announced a new framework called Google Gears, which allows your web applications to save and retrieve stuff even when you’re not online. This online-only limitation has been a huge Achilles heel for the web app industry so far, and one of the major reasons that Google [...]
I heard an interview with Scott Frank the other day. He’s the guy who wrote the screenplays for Out of Sight, Get Shorty, and Minority Report, clearly a man with a serious handle on how to put stories together. So it was incredibly gratifying to hear him say this:
I find that when I [...]
Here’s a picture of Beauregard carrying around his comfort cowhide, the remains of an old Halloween costume.
Beau has a love hate relationship with toys like this. Whenever he’s stressed about something he likes to put large fluffly things in his mouth and run around the house with them, mewling pitiably. The first thing he did [...]
This is what it’s like to be a conservative whackjob in America today:
Plans to vaccinate young girls against the sexually-transmitted virus that causes cervical cancer have been blocked in several US states by conservative groups, who say that doing so would encourage promiscuity.
So, to summarize:
Having sex is bad, and Fear of cervical cancer might [...]
I had a nightmare last night. I was locked in a room, writing a story. I was writing it on a PC, using Microsoft Word. There were no Macs in the room, and there were no other editors on the computer — not even Notepad. I had to use a PC, and I had to [...]
So I’ve been blogging for over five years now, and I’m still not entirely sure why. Is this thing an extroverted version of the diary I never managed to keep? Is it an attempt to scratch the writing itch without doing any actual writing? A hopeful shout out into the void? A reason to spend [...]
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