Shelley thought about something she posted after a comment was left by a reader and pulled it. I didn’t catch what it was she wrote but I tend to agree with her on why she pulled it. Some things need to be agitated and some things just need to let settle. In the comments here at Burningbird ‘D’ doesn’t seem to think she should pull something after posting it because it goes against her credibility. I don’t quite see it that way. I find Shelley much more credible for pulling one of her articles that really didn’t need to be ‘blogged in the first place than I would if she had just left something there that wasn’t worth my time reading.

Writer’s will write about everything. They can’t help it, it’s what makes them writers. Because of that some of the stuff they write is of no value to anyone but themselves. Oh, they turn out some beautiful stuff but along the way they also turn out some stuff that is just spillage. The editors protect us from most of the spillage on large sites but on these weblogs and journals the writers are also the editors. It’s difficult for a writer to even cull the spillage at times. Shelley’s doing a pretty good job of that but her weblog is being produced in front of us. We are watching her at her craft and as she corrects her errors as she goes.

If you want to see only a finished product, ‘D’, read only yesterday’s posts. Those have been corrected. Today’s stuff is still being formed. That goes, not just for Burningbird but for weblogs in general. Oh, there are many of us that just leave the spillage there for everyone to see but the interesting ones are either posted to only after all editing has been done or you see the editing take place live. That’s just the nature of the genre.

Okay, diveintomark is at a new location so I guess I need to update my bookmarks. He’s also switched from Manilla to Greymatter. This fellow’s writing is worth keeping up.

I just upgraded to Blogger Pro. I would have given $35 a year for the service as I was using it but there are some features that I like. The blogging by email is one of them. Maybe some of the thoughts I have sitting at a lunch counter will find their way here through my PDA.

<edit>Okay, the post by email is a future feature so it will be a little bit before I can use that feature, but I’ve implemented the subject field. It makes my RSS file a little cleaner.</edit>

via /. Go to McWhortle Enterprises, Inc. and attempt to invest. The SEC is attempting to give some people a clue.

Relationships are a strange thing. Some of them are good, some are bad and some are indifferent but the one thing they have in common is that they all change. Meryl Yourish examines how friendships change through here twenty odd year relationship with a friend.

I’ve always believed that the only people that we are capable of having strong emotional reactions to are those people that we care about the most. That’s the reason that we see some marriages explode and others just fizzle. If the caring is still there there will be no amicable end to a marriage while the ones that just fizzle are because the strong feelings for each other have just faded away.

After a whirlwind tour of houses in Atlanta, GA and Charlotte, NC this weekend (Atlanta on Saturday, Charlotte or Sunday) I think we’ve made a decision, Charlotte felt a lot more like home. Too many of the communities we looked at in Atlanta just had the feeling of throwing up a bunch of houses in the middle of a cow pasture and the older communities we looked at just looked run down. Charlotte, on the other hand appeared to be making a concious effort of including “charm” in even their brand new communities. There was more of an inclusive feeling between residential and commercial. I’ll post more about this after I’ve had an opportunity to recover from the travel.

Mark has gone through a loss. I’m not sure who he is speaking about but it appears to be someone very close. Having just lost my mother, I feel for him.

Dave has a neat little piece of software called Radio. I’ve played around with it and it has a bunch of very nice features and for a lot of people it will make an excellent tool for ‘blogging. I’m still interested in rolling my own CMS so I’m going to stay where I am for now until I get the scripts put together I need.

Still, there’s this coffee mug that Dave is using for a logo for Radio and I want one. The trouble is that I don’t think they exist anywhere but in an image file. Dave, you’re missing a market here. The fellows over at QuickTees can put this image on however many coffee cups you want at a decent price. I’m tempted just to take the logo over there and have one made just for me. Or maybe I’ll have some made up with my journal’s logo on it.

It was raining fairly hard yesterday afternoon when I left my office heading home so I decided not to purchase the water heater and haul it home in the bed of my pickup. No sense spending a couple of hundred dollars on something and then haul it around in the rain. Is there? Anyway, since I didn’t have to install the water heater I went ahead and added my bookmarks for weblogs I read regularly to the bottom of the right side bar. Look over there —>

One thing I noticed was that lake effect: a weblog is down and the name can’t be resolved. I like reading Dan’s take on things so I hope this is only temporary.

I like detective stories so this story about a stolen iMac recovered by scripting was a very interesting read for me.

Well, it’s more awards time. Now it’s the Second Annual Weblog Awards or the Bloggies. I guess it shows how far out of the loop I am because I don’t read any of the ones nominated on anywhere near a regular basis.

I guess I need to make a list of the ones I read regularly like everyone else does, more than just the little page with the RSS feeds, but I never figured people would be all that interested in who was on my list. I guess the authors of those ‘Blogs would probably appreciate just knowing that they are read and appreciated. Those of you who know I read their ‘blogs, like Dan, Shelley, Tom and Dori please know that I appreciate you very much for what you are doing. I’ll get my list up to let the rest of you know by Monday. Right now I’ve got to replace a water heater.

What do you do when laws crafted to protect children may expose them to prosecution? Two girls aged 11 and 12 are reported to have posted naked pictures of themselves on the internet.

A Google search on glorious uxorcide returns no documents. That’s just my contribution to Googlewhacking.

Here’s a standard that I want to work on, Emotitext. Really. That’s my message forum. How often do you see people using <sarcasm/> tags in online discussions? Well, I want to develop a few CSS classes for this. The problem I have is envisioning the attributes that need to go with the different classes. I think it’s something that could catch on if their were standard class names and certain default attributes for those classes. Well, not all standards have to be serious. Do they?

A thread going on over at Flutterby involving theology and Christianity has Dori asking about sects that believe both faith and works are required to enter heaven. Petronius gives a great answer:

You’re asking the wrong question. If you believe, good works are not necessary. They are inevitable.

Very rarely do I find even Christians that understand this concept.