Writing for Love

Via Luis, a trail of bread crumbs leads to Paul Graham: Actually, the fad is the word “blog,” at least the way the print media now use it. What they mean by “blogger” is not someone who publishes in a weblog format, but anyone who publishes online. That’s going to become a problem as the [...]

It’s Not Just CO2

Finally found the time this evening to tack a comment onto a post at Roger Pielke Sr.’s blog, in which he suggested the media hasn’t been writing about a new NAS report because it “is inconvenient for those who view the radiative effect of human-caused CO2 increases as the dominant forcing of climate change.” Roger’s [...]

Vampires

This morning I donated blood. Most of the the staff at United Blood Services was in Halloween costume. For some reason, there were a disproportionate number of vampires. Wonder why.

Ben Bernanke and the ERA

I know precious little about monetary policy. But I am inclined to enthusiasm about Ben Bernanke’s nomination to replace Alan Greenspan after hearing this on NPR about what might be called the “Bernanke-Jaffee Theory” on baseball’s hallowed “earned run average.” The ERA is a measure of the average number of runs a baseball pitcher would [...]

This Old Globe

While doing the blog software transition, a trail of crumbs in my old archives led me to Dan York’s blog, one of my old Advogato blog buddies. Turns out he’s a collector of old globes, and has just launched This Old Globe, a blog about globe collecting.

Transition Complete, Sort Of

WordPress installation went off without a scratch. Well, I’m not completely scratchless. Some tidying up to do. Like figuring out how to get my own RSS feed to work on my own Planet. But it’s a sweet piece of software.