Search engine disoptimization
In case anyone missed the link buried in the previous post, here is the joke about my pages as seen by MSN’s search engine:
No, I have no idea why the site description is in Chinese. Nor do I know why Yahoo claims that my site’s summary “contains characters that cannot be displayed in this language/character [...]
Letter to Jack Spicer
Dear Jack,
In your first book, After Lorca, you wrote a letter to Lorca saying you wanted to make a poem out of a real lemon, not the description of a lemon. Very good; Jenny Holzer has done stranger things. You also say
I would like the moon in my poems to be a real moon, one [...]
Amazon.com RSS. Damn.
I think Amazon has had limited RSS support before, but this is something else. About a hundred custom RSS feeds by category. That takes me to 200 feeds… (As seen on Scripting News, among others…)
What kind of death march are you on?
Great article in Microsoft Certified Professional Magazine about “death march” projects. Object oriented guru Ed Yourdon taxonomizes those difficult, never ending, no room for error projects according to happiness level and chance of success. High happiness, high chance of success projects are “mission impossible”—everyone wants to make the project succeed, against all odds. There are [...]
On knowing the Dog
Someone asked me last night to describe what my depression was like. It was interesting; except for sessions with my therapist I never had tried to put it in words to anyone.
I said: I found it hard to get out of bed in the morning. Sometimes I found it impossible to sleep at night. I [...]
