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The sound of magic  

The kids are in bed.
The Girl is having trouble sleeping. The neighbor’s dog is barking beneath her window. She’s reading and drawing with the light on. I’ll check on her in a few minutes and tuck her in and slide the paper out from under her arm and admire her drawings and put her pencil [...]

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About the Technical Reviewer  

Received my copy today of the Pro Web 2.0 Mashups book I did the technical review for. Always neat to see something you’ve worked on become real. Also, I hate writing bios like this.

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Pro Web 2.0 Mashups  

I just finished technical review on a new book due out next month from Apress called Pro Web 2.0 Mashups: Remixing Data and Web Services. (A technical reviewer basically just makes sure all of the examples work and that the technical stuff the author writes is correct and provides evaluations of the text from a [...]

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It’s that time again…  

National Novel Writing Month is here.

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Want to read a book with me?  

I’m planning to read the Tao Te Ching over the next couple of weeks. Why? Curiosity. And I’m interested in eastern philosophy and philosophy generally.
Oh, and it’s short.
I’m going to read the book in 14 installments starting Monday which are going to be emailed to me for free by a site called Daily Lit. You [...]

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