Navel-gazing if you’re a computer or know one. Boring but included for sense of completion.
Friday, Dec. 2, 2005. Can you get by with writing or saying whatever you want because you’re sick, and you’re lightheaded from clogged sinuses or fever or some-such thing? It’d be nice. So later if what is written makes no sense, or even worse, it does make sense but it offends people you don’t want […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, November 2, 2005. There is nothing simple about Really Simple Syndication. RSS makes little sense. I finally understand that with it I can create a personal Internet connection for all of my favorite sites to let me know when they update; I think I get a phone call. But […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Sunday, Oct. 30, 2005. At some point toward the end of every month, I the Brick layer consider its worth. Blogs, especially those using services and their templates (e.g. Blogger etc.), seem to be one long Internet page then at some point weeks months earlier a cutoff is determined for […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, Aug. 17, 2005. News item: Not now. “News item” is a decades-old method to prepare the reader for an essay or column, especially a humorous one, whose subject, or just an allusion used in it, may be borderline obscure. If it truly is obscure, we wouldn’t use it, would […]
Do you really care? Thursday, Aug. 4, 2005: Just to get the month rolling with a freshly laid Brick, let’s note the delay was due to family coming to visit the first of the month. Details such as the visitor was one brother and not a flock of kin, and that the stay was 26 […]
Copyright 2005 Ben S. Pollock Wednesday, July 13, 2005. So what I do is just admit my fear. Look at this gap in time: days since the last Brick, feels like a month. Why? A lack of topics as well as a lack of opinions? No. It was the feeling of a block. It came […]