Tip of the Quill: A Journal

Monthly Archives: January 2003


Yes, all of this is the outcome of the personal problem I mentioned a few weeks ago. So there’s that mystery cleared up for you.

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Dreams are hard to let go of.

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Things took a turn for the worse yesterday evening, and after two years and some change, I’m once again – unwillingly – single. Just thought you ought to know. (And Frank, because I know you read this, she could probably use a phone call.) To the few people who read this that I don’t know […]

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Ladies and gentlemen, please step this way to the good Mr. Zeldman’s depiction of the morning-after call from Mr. GWB to Mr. SH. Heh heh heh.

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How wonderful would it be if we had weblogs for Salman Rushdie, Jamie Oliver, Zadie Smith, Jonathan Safran Foer, “Sourpuss” Franzen, and all these other young turks? Is there a connection between what these people produce and the time it takes to maintain a weblog? Is it possible to do both? In the case of […]

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Is it better to be a writer, or somebody that people write about? How about a writer that people write about? 😉

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Well, $1.2B for alternative energy research is at least a concession to all of us out here hollering for an alternative attack on our dependency on Iraq. However, note he didn’t say anything truly ambitious, like the old “man on the moon” approach. While he could have said something ambitious and exciting, such as “By […]

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Well, Apple came out with a lukewarm update to their PowerMacs today, and a kick-butt update to their Cinema Displays. They introduced a new 20″ monitor and cut the price of their 17’s from $999 to $699, but the best part came in the form of a price cut for their top-of-the-line 23″ HD Cinema […]

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I’ve now lost three posts to Blogger over the course of as many days. Anybody else having these problems?

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Awesome. On Thursday, the U.S. Senate voted to block funding for the Pentagon’s Total Information Awareness project. It’s not dead yet – the project is only being financially blocked until the Pentagon “explains the program and assesses its impact on civil liberties” – but it’s nice to know that at least some people in Washington […]

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