Kids says the @*&-est … errr.. cutest things
I am, after several months of putting it off, back on a diet. I've got to do this every couple of years. I've weighed in at a lot of different weight ranges over the years, and I'm trying to avoid ever getting back to the high ones again. So I exercise as often as I […]
‘Feelings’ of God don’t make or unmake faith
There has been much written about Mother Teresa's long, long dark night of the soul recently (see the Time article here). A new book containing correspondence between Mother Teresa and her confessors reveal, according to Time, "that for the last nearly half-century of her life she felt no presence of God whatsoever — or, as […]
Books, Yard Sales, and Getting Older
The milestones of age I notice most are those of my kids: first time to smile, to laugh, to turn over, to be able to locate middle C on the piano and play a C scale, crossing under with the thumb. Less frequently I notice my own. I'm always startled. Saturday, Aug. 25: Fishing waders, […]
Together In Real Space, Together In Cyber Space — At The Same Time
Kristen and I have gotten hooked playing Scrabble over Facebook using the Scrabulous app. This wouldn't seem so odd if we were playing remotely – like when I was on a break at work and she was at home or something; that would make sense. But I don't have time for that during the day […]
Too many links! Re-envisioning the blog, pledging to find time for the short-short essay format again
I don't know anymore what this particular page ought to do. But I know having it be a linkdump for my del.icio.us links is just ugly. So I've sent all my del.icio.us links to my Facebook page, instead. Along with my Twitter posts. Which now, of course, are fed by Twitterfeed directly from my Facebook […]
links for 2007-08-02
Facebook surges | yelvington.com “Twitter, a service designed for one-liner microblogging, may seem annoyingly shallow, but a similar tool on Facebook makes sense. Bruce Koon worked late last night. Terry Heaton is waiting on paperwork to close on his house. Bob Benz is going to see Lysi (tags: facebook web2.0 social)
links for 2007-08-01
E-Media Tidbits – Community Communication that Supports the News Business “Traditional media still are having a hard time deciding whether online communities such as MySpace and Facebook are relevant to their business. It’s mostly private communication, isn’t it? What has it got to do with newspapers? Grouptivity.com, a San Mat (tags: grouptivity email web2.0 newspapers)