Hurricane Isabel Blog

I took this photo from my next door neighbor’s front yard. How do I contact the power company about down power lines. It won’t be long before that line comes down. If there is a special number for down or damaged power lines. If so, please email the number or web link to me. —Richard…

Terranova: Golems and Community

Everyone should agree that good AI certainly creates more enjoyable games (see Barney in Half-Life). This is probably a correlative of the fact that bad AI ruins some games. But query: does smart AI create better communities? | Of course, real-life bots are the subject of a vast amount of pop literature. Asimov is a…

Will Gayther Keeps Working on Style Sheets

Well, after hours and hours and hours and hours and hours….of work, I’ve finally found a css layout that: Allows the weblog content to appear in the html file before the menu. I don’t know if this will actually help – see * below. Is about 60% the size of your original index.jsp file (mostly…

Write To

We write on paper, but we write to a magnetic disk (or tape). Part of what the preposition contributes here is a sense of interiority; because we cannot see anything on its surface, the disk is linguistically refigured as a volumetric receptacle, a black box with a closed lid. —Matthew G. Kirshcenbaum —Write To (MGK) Thus…

Keeping Track

I add entries to various writing-charts like an accountant keeps a ledger book (and I do keep a ledger or sorts, too, for all my writing income and expenses). Why? Because no one else will…. There are lists that everyone should keep and others that some of just keep because we’re odd. To each his…