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May 2008
Aquamacs - I am home
If you like Emacs, and are looking for version that plays well in OS-X land, it looks like Aquamacs is what you want.
As an aside, following the instructions here, to download and install MIT Scheme, will get you ready to self study Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs. Eli Bendersky blogged his effort to read the book.
If you're concerned about learning Lisp to use Emacs, you don't have to. But if you care to dip in, defmacro's The Nature of Lisp is a good read.
If you're looking for Python support, check out this write up (M-x run-python just worked out of the box - nice Aquamacs!).
There are many versions of Emacs available for OS-X beyond Aquamacs and the one that Apple bundles. You can find them on the EmacsWiki. The CarbonEmacsPackage is a popular choice, so is Emacs App. I'll probably end up experimenting a bit with them both.
There is a great set of Emacs tutorials at IBM's developerWorks.
Emacs's Org-mode might be the answer to my note taking needs.
Karl at Friday, May 30, 2008 | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Are you going to see "Sex and the City"?
Last movie I saw? "Iron Man". It rocked. Now I admit to watching "Sex and the City" at home with Richelle and enjoying it - it was fun. But going out to the movies to see it adds all sorts of interesting dimensions. Slightly ameliorating the sense of... well interestingness of it all, will be that I will probably be going with Richelle, her best friend Renee, Richelle's sister Rose, and our Sister in law Cindy (congrats again on Mikey Cindy!). It's either that, or double baby sitting with Mike :)
Interesting article in Salon, Susie Bright doesn't like "Sex and the City" all that much, and taken from her point of view, I can't blame her:
Susie Bright was the original sexpert. The author of countless books on human sexuality, erotica and her own sexplorations, Bright was writing about sex before Carrie Bradshaw was in diapers. These days, she lives in Santa Cruz, Calif., with her partner and writes about her life, motherhood and sex at SusieBright.com. What does she think of "Sex and the City"?"My ideas were clearly ripped off," she says. For her, it's like Iggy Pop spotting a CBGB T-shirt for sale at the mall. What "Sex and the City" did was co-opt a very real, very important movement at the time that was dedicated to female sexuality and was in no small part spearheaded by Bright. Unfortunately, "in some cases, like with 'Sex and the City,' the fantasy became bigger than the reality of women speaking about their sexuality." As "Sex and the City" returns, "everyone knows who Sarah Jessica Parker is, but Sarah Jessica Parker is not a pioneer in sex-positive feminism."
The women of "Sex and the City," asserts Bright, aren't political. "They're desperate to get married. They obsess about their marital status." And they turned the sexual revolution for women of the new millennium into a business. To make her point, Bright references a recent New Yorker essay, "The Fall of Conservatism" by George Packer, in which Pat Buchanan paraphrased social theorist Eric Hoffer: "Every great cause begins as a movement, becomes a business, and eventually degenerates into a racket." Comments Bright: "'Sex and the City' is the racket part of what once was recognizable as the sexual self-emancipation of the feminist movement." For her, the commodification of the 21st century female sexual revolution hits too close to home. "I can't watch these women, you know, make asses of themselves and be so petty and small-minded about sexual possibility. I take it too personally."
Says Bright, "I feel like someone drove over me with a truck. I feel invisible. I feel -- you know what I feel like? I feel like Trotsky when Stalin airbrushed him out of all the pictures of the Russian Revolution. I feel like the revisionist version of the sexual liberation movement is so stupid and shallow. If the original idea was about self-knowledge, and being orgasmically aware, and large and in charge, and independent, and not pathetically hung up on a man's approval, then the show is a failure." But, she adds, "I take it very seriously. I'm sure the people who make the show would say, 'Lighten up. Susie Bright -- what a pain.'"
While "Sex and the City" freed up the possibilities for a new generation of Susies, the downside is that, in pop culture, sex is now but one more commodity. Bright explains, "It does a disservice in the same way that you see an ad for a Lexus with your favorite Rolling Stone song or John Lennon song. This used to be something. I've always been sad when capitalism ruins my favorite passions."
Karl at Friday, May 30, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Beyond the Browser
Arpit Mathur, our Flash wiz at CIM, has posted a nifty summary of different approaches being taken to extend the browser's capabilities to the desktop.
To the list, let me add a few more desktop development platforms, that are network leveraging:
Firefox, irregardless of Prism, is already a capable sometimes-connected desktop application environment (witness Songbird - an open source project I might dig into, because I am just unhappy with the state of current mp3 players). However, Prism sure does seem interesting and worth keeping an eye on.
And while Arpit did cover the Flash side of things (Air), I love contemplating Flex+Python or Flex+Java approaches. Bruce Eckel's article in Artima on the subject maps to the way I think. There is a lot of re-use and maintenance problems you solve when you layer an application that way.
An earlier project I worked on was a communications application that utilized a Flash UI hosted in a C# application. It worked intriguingly well.
Karl at Friday, May 30, 2008 | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Top 3 resources for migrating to the latest Movable Type templates
I'm going to be migrating to the latest and greatest Movable Type templates soon and wanted to collect the best resources I could find. Here are three:
How to upgrade to Movable Type 4 full templates (MT4) - Robert Green's DIY
Upgrading Your MT3 Templates to Movable Type 4.0 | Movable Type Docs
Movable Tweak: Movable Type 3 vs. Movable Type 4: A Modular Site Approach
(ah, I used 'top n-number' in a post!)
Karl at Friday, May 30, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Social Media/Software/Norgs Links for Thursday May 29, 2008
Jeremiah Owyang: The Many Challenges of Corporate Blogging
Akamai Report: State of the Internet
An oldie but a must read to gain some context: NYMag: Everybody Sucks: Gawker and the rage of the creative underclass.
Karl at Thursday, May 29, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Women speakers at conferences, expanding the conversation, some personal experience
Livia Labate, Principal of Information Architecture for Comcast Interactive Media, my team at Comcast, is asking some hard questions around why there are not more women speakers at conferences. She raises the issue here and follows up here.
Livia, meet Jeneane Sessum, writer, consultant, marketing pro, all round social media expert. In her latest post she runs the Industry Standard over the rails for doing what so many other media publications seem apt to do - publish a list of (top or must read) bloggers and not include women.
Livia, meet Shelley Powers, author, Javascript/AJAX extraordinaire who has written a number of posts on the subject, here are two: Progress, Invisible.
Shelley and Jeneane, meet Livia.
Before I mention anything from my point of view and experiences, two more links - one a shocker, and one a think piece:
NYTimes: Sorry, Boys, This Is Our Domain: Research shows that among the youngest Internet users, the primary creators of Web content (blogs, graphics, photographs, Web sites) are not misfits resembling the Lone Gunmen of "The X Files." On the contrary, the cyberpioneers of the moment are digitally effusive teenage girls. The section this article appeared in? Fashion. Not Business. Not Technology.
Salon: The question isn't why a blogger like Emily Gould has the spotlight -- it's why other women don't.
Onward...
I've written in the past about why I feel diversity is crucial to a successful gathering where information discussion is the goal.
I've never shared the difficulty I had in helping manage the Norg Unconference to meet that ideal.
The Norg Unconference was to build bridges between media technologists, independent bloggers, and traditional newspaper media, to help newspapers, indeed all of us, find a path to build the new news organization, or norg, as Will Bunch called it.
Many in attendance thought it was groundbreaking how it brought together such radically different world views in media such as members of IndyMedia and the Philadelphia Inquirer.
But part of me walked away feeling it wasn't such a big success - the participants in attendance weren't a true representation of the real diversity in Philly - and in assisting Wendy Warren of the Philadelphia Daily News and Susie Madrak, in organizing the meeting, which was taking place in the lead up to Emma being born, and me burning the candle at both ends, I burnt some bridges myself, as I fought, prior to the conference, to get folks to work together across views of each other. I partially failed, and lost some friends I believe. For an ideal. I won't go into details, as I hope bridges can one day be restored, I have no bad feelings.
I leave it at this - it is very, very hard to get people to open up to what others can bring to the table - and do so pro-actively - while looking outside the usual suspects to make it happen. For all my love of the Web's capability to widen the scope of conversation, it also empowers us to be discriminating in who we give attention to. It's human nature at play - the Web is an attention economy. You think it's bad at conferences? Check out who is considered the 'thought leaders' in any niche blogging conversation, who is considered the A-list in any blogging topic space.
More background:
kottke.org: Gender diversity at web conferences
O'Reilly: Women in Technology
Dori Smith (Javascript Guru/Author): BackupBrain: Gender diversity at web conferences.
Kimberly Blessing: Where are all the women? (Revisited)
Anil Dash: The Old Boys Club is for Losers
One last question still bubbles...
This is from my earlier post (which has a lot more reference links):
Aren't we collectively building an architecture of participation? Our face to face gatherings should mirror that. And if they don't - then they reveal who we truly care about - don't they?
Karl at Thursday, May 29, 2008 | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Emma Pictures!
Richelle and me put together a list of songs that Emma sings and pretty much knows the words to - it's over 20 songs!Sooner or later I promise to post some videos. Until then - it's picture time :)
Karl at Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Getting shot 4 of 4 today
I'm off to get my last epidural today. The last two had decreasing amounts of effectiveness, so my hopes aren't all that great. I'll need to weigh options after this. What next?
Some Ask Metafilter threads:
I have a pain in the butt. Help me fix it.
Grade 4 Spondylolisthesis: your experiences, please.
Help with my lower back pain issue
Karl at Wednesday, May 28, 2008 | Comments (3) | TrackBack
Garret Vreeland: "The Internet is personal, pervasive, and permanent."
Emily Gould, formerly of Gawker wrote of her experience sharing her life online in the NYTimes. It's a weekend must read.
The piece has drawn interesting reaction from here and there, but the response that stood out the most to me was Garret's:
NY Times, you got snookered. You need editors who've had a history on the internet, with experience of the weblogging phenomena going back to the beginning of the revolution.Why is there such a strong reaction among webloggers to this piece? To us, the lessons gleaned from this article were new eight or nine years ago. Now they're reflexive, done without thought: Revealing personal information online, is like lending your favorite books. Only lend what you don't mind losing. Never lend what is valuable to others, without permission. Don't expect to be forgiven if you do, because you cannot 'take it back.'
Repeat after me: The Internet is personal, pervasive, and permanent.
Again, louder.
The Internet is personal, pervasive, and permanent.
The sooner you memorize and understand that, the better.
Karl at Monday, May 26, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
lang:groovy - extend your Spring app with scripting
The Spring Framework offers many ways to ease application development and maintenance, but one that gets my interest really going is its dynamic language support.
codehaus: Dynamic language beans in Spring
codehaus: Groovy and JMX
raible designs: Using Dynamic Languages with Spring with Rod Johnson and Guillaume LaForge
organic thoughts: Spring Meets Groovy!
Karl at Monday, May 26, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
"the 110 AC outlet"
There's a good piece in the NYTimes on cloud computing for the uninitiated: Cloud Computing: So You Don't Have to Stand Still
Traditional companies are also beginning to adapt their computing infrastructure to the cloud. Reuven Cohen is founder and chief technologist at Enomaly, a software firm in Etobicoke, Ontario, that helps companies do just that. While most of its clients are technology businesses, Mr. Cohen says Enomaly is working with a New York-based bank that uses cloud computing to develop and test applications. He says that another customer is a large media business that uses the cloud to process video.He sees this kind of need-driven use as a "fundamental change in how we manage technology."
In fact, cloud computing is poised to do for technology what the electrical grid did for power, says Nicholas Carr, author of "The Big Switch," which compares the rise of the cloud to the rise of electric utilities. The electrical grid streamlined operations for companies; when every home had cheap power and outlets, "you had incredible innovation in how to put all that cheap power to use," Mr. Carr says. He thinks that cloud computing will prompt a similar cycle over the next decade.
There are practical problems that could turn the cloud into a thunderhead. The technology is still emerging: Amazon's Simple Storage Service (S3) went offline for a couple of hours in February.
Peter O'Kelly, an analyst at the Burton Group, a technology research firm, says he thinks that many established companies will not save money by moving to the cloud. And Alistair Croll, a partner at Bitcurrent, a consulting firm that specializes in Web and cloud technologies, says companies will not be able to put data willy-nilly into the cloud because of security concerns.
At the same time, Mr. Croll says the cloud is here to stay. "The Web has become the interface" for computing, "the 110 AC outlet," he says. That is a fundamental shift that could power a new cycle of technological innovation.
Karl at Monday, May 26, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
What's the impact of time shifting on mass entertainment?
The NYTimes looks at the effects of DVRs and Web video on mass entertainment. It's not as clear cut as you think: In the Age of TiVo and Web Video, What Is Prime Time? - New York Times: "As a result of time-shifting, the biggest shows are getting bigger and some of the smaller shows are getting negatively impacted," the senior television executive said.
That's so counter intuitive. In my experience, my TV watching not only increased, but Richelle and me watch a far wider variety of shows.
Karl at Sunday, May 25, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Flex, Spring, BlazeDS (oh my!)
Looks like a tutorial I want to take: "Flex, Spring and BlazeDS: the full stack! (Part 1)"
Karl at Friday, May 23, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Celebrating Life
You can't help but be inspired by how Randy Pausch is facing his oncoming death - by celebrating his life and sharing it with others.
NYTimes: Keeping Priorities Straight, Even at the End:
The real wisdom of Dr. Pausch is that he tries to enjoy every day he has left with his family, while at the same time trying to prepare them for life without him. To that end, he is videotaping himself spending time with Dylan, Logan and Chloe so they can look back and see how he felt about them."I've always said I only care about the first three copies of the book," Dr. Pausch said. "The lessons learned are the lessons I've learned and what worked for me. But so many people wrote to me and said, 'This was a jumping-off point to have conversations with my kids we haven't had.' "
Karl at Friday, May 23, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Using Disk to Scale
One of the largest concerns when developing an infrastructure for a site as large as Comcast.net is determining smart ways to scale. By smart, I mean requiring the least amount of effort to launch new channels or services. Each new channel or page can draw thousands, if not millions of page views. You need to plan for it.
When growing Cofax at Knight Ridder, we hit a nasty bump in the road after adding our 17th newspaper to the system. Performance wasn't what it used to be and there were times when services were unresponsive.
A project was started to resolve the issue, to look for 'the smoking gun'. The thought being that the database, being as well designed as it was, could not be of issue, even with our classic symptom being rapidly growing numbers of db connections right before a crash. So we concentrated on optimizing the application stack.
I disagreed and waged a number of arguments that it was our database that needed attention. We first needed to tune queries and indexes, and be willing to, if required, pre-calculate data upon writes and avoid joins by developing a set of denormalized tables. It was a hard pill for me to swallow since I was the original database designer. Turned out it was harder for everyone else! Consultants were called in. They declared the db design to be just right - that the problem must have been the application.
After two months of the team pushing numerous releases thought to resolve the issue, to no avail, we came back to my original arguments. The terrific thing was that restructuring the database was a no pain affair - we had a terrific service layer between the main web tier and the db that hid its schema. We were able to deliver a release of the database that did not require any code changes on the web tier.
There is no silver bullet here, for smaller sites you are adding a great degree of complexity taking this route and it is, most likely, not advisable. However, if you have a large site that is thrashing - dealing with the demands of growth - take a hard look.
Related - and supporting of this:
High Scalability: "How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Using a Lot of Disk Space to Scale".
High Scalability: Scaling Secret #2: Denormalizing Your Way to Speed and Profit
Dare Obasanjo: When Not to Normalize your SQL Database
Karl at Wednesday, May 21, 2008 | Comments (1) | TrackBack
Welcome to the world Mikey
Congratulations to Mike and Cindy on your beautiful baby boy :)
Karl at Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | Comments (2) | TrackBack
Social Software Links for May 20th, 2008
- Epicenter: Google Health Goes Live - It will have huge ramifications in how very sensitive data will get shared and managed.
- Google Friend Connect launches, proving what me and a few others have said in the past - Social Networking isn't a set of destinations, but a set of features that services that aim to surface online community focus must provide. Forums and Instant Messenging 3.0.
- Talking about opening conversation in a truely powerful way, ever notice how few talk about mental illness? Well the same holds true online as well. Furious Seasons, a great blog that discusses mental health care from different angles, shares that one of the best blogs about the subject, editor of the Philadelphia Weekly, Liz Spikol, maybe leaving us.
- Philly.com relaunches. I have a lot to say about the work Mark Potts and team accomplished, but for now - congrats!
- ReadWriteWeb shares The Ultimate Twitter Revenue Model. Advertisements. Show me a business plan that doesn't include them. The funny thing is we all claim to have read The Cluetrain Manifesto, yet instead of discouraging advertising as a business model - it appears to have empowered it as one. Maybe reinforced it as one. The irony is thick.
Karl at Tuesday, May 20, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Leg pain returning, but there are some sports stars dealing with this too
I'll post an update about the latest injection's progress (not good), but while researching my condition using Powerset I found out that NBA MVB, the Suns's Steve Nash, and tennis star Andre Agassi, have my condition, spondylolisthesis.
Sports Illustrated: Point Guard from Another Planet
NBA.com: Steve Nash's MVP Workout
Charlie Rose Show: A conversation with basketball professional Steve Nash
Tennis Warehouse: Interview with Andre Agassi
theage.com.au: Pain is Agassi's main foe
webmd.com: Andre Agassi's Battle With Back Pain
cnn.com: Interview With Andre Agassi
Karl at Wednesday, May 14, 2008 | Comments (2) | TrackBack
I hope you had a great Mother's Day
To all the moms out there, especially to Richelle and all those out there that are mine (and yes I mean that plural) - Happy Mother's Day!
Karl at Sunday, May 11, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
"When we're poor... our economic worldview is shaped by deprivation"
Boston.com: The sting of poverty: The more of a painful or undesirable thing one has (i.e. the poorer one is) the less likely one is to do anything about any one problem. Poverty is less a matter of having few goods than having lots of problems.
NYTimes: Paul Krugman: Poverty is Poison:To be poor in America today, even more than in the past, is to be an outcast in your own country. And that, the neuroscientists tell us, is what poisons a child's brain.
Philly.com: The new mandate: First, find them a home: Deborah Harmon, 43 and mentally ill, was released from jail for panhandling, and again faced living on the streets or in a shelter. Runell McKnight, 25, had no place to go with her two young children after she broke up with the man she was living with. Today, both women have apartments of their own, with each a beneficiary of programs that aggressively promote the notion that, above all, the homeless need homes.
The Gospel of Consumption: "Nothing," he claimed, "breeds radicalism more than unhappiness unless it is leisure."
Elizabeth Warren interview at UC Berkley: It is partly about politics. If you don't email your congresswoman or your congressman and your senator, then you are part of the problem today. You've got to tell them that this is an issue that matters to you, that this really, truly matters.
Karl at Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Leg/Back Pain Update
I had a follow up at the University of Pennsylvania last Friday to discuss my progress.
My lower back pain symptoms has been unchanged, I still get a very hot pain while sitting, either happening immediately in unergonomic settings, or after an hour or so in ergonomic-correct settings.
My leg pain (only my left leg) begins after walking 3 or more blocks and progresses to a level 2 after five blocks, requiring me to stop walking and take a break for it to settle down. If I don't the pain rapidly grows into something that incapacitates me.
The leg pain starts in me left hip, left knee, left shin almost simultaneously (I think the hip just slightly before the rest). Along with that is a growing tingle in my left big toe and a pressure on the top of my left ankle. Sometimes the tingle remains in the toe whether sitting, standing or walking. Most times all of these will subside when sitting down or leaning against a wall.
Unfortunately, the level 2 pain is a step back from the level 1 pain I felt earlier in the week (which was a level 5-8 pain before the first shot in this series), when I sounded so optimistic. I'm doing everything 'right' as far as I know. Eating well. Exercising. Watching posture and my body mechanics.
The doctor was encouraged by my progress. The leg pain/tingling used to come on earlier and far more strong. So he's scheduled me for two more Selective Nerve Root Block injections.
I don't mind the back pain. Don't care that much about it at all. Getting up every hour to relieve it is good for for me. But the leg pain continues to be a drag on so much.
Gotta keep on trucking. Things could be far worst.
Karl at Tuesday, May 6, 2008 | Comments (2) | TrackBack
On being "well adjusted"
David Foster Wallace's Commencement Speech at Kenyon University:
There are these two guys sitting together in a bar in the remote Alaskan wilderness. One of the guys is religious, the other is an atheist, and the two are arguing about the existence of God with that special intensity that comes after about the fourth beer. And the atheist says: "Look, it's not like I don't have actual reasons for not believing in God. It's not like I haven't ever experimented with the whole God and prayer thing. Just last month I got caught away from the camp in that terrible blizzard, and I was totally lost and I couldn't see a thing, and it was fifty below, and so I tried it: I fell to my knees in the snow and cried out 'Oh, God, if there is a God, I'm lost in this blizzard, and I'm gonna die if you don't help me.'" And now, in the bar, the religious guy looks at the atheist all puzzled. "Well then you must believe now," he says, "After all, here you are, alive." The atheist just rolls his eyes. "No, man, all that was was a couple Eskimos happened to come wandering by and showed me the way back to camp."It's easy to run this story through kind of a standard liberal arts analysis: the exact same experience can mean two totally different things to two different people, given those people's two different belief templates and two different ways of constructing meaning from experience. Because we prize tolerance and diversity of belief, nowhere in our liberal arts analysis do we want to claim that one guy's interpretation is true and the other guy's is false or bad. Which is fine, except we also never end up talking about just where these individual templates and beliefs come from. Meaning, where they come from INSIDE the two guys. As if a person's most basic orientation toward the world, and the meaning of his experience were somehow just hard-wired, like height or shoe-size; or automatically absorbed from the culture, like language. As if how we construct meaning were not actually a matter of personal, intentional choice. Plus, there's the whole matter of arrogance. The nonreligious guy is so totally certain in his dismissal of the possibility that the passing Eskimos had anything to do with his prayer for help. True, there are plenty of religious people who seem arrogant and certain of their own interpretations, too. They're probably even more repulsive than atheists, at least to most of us. But religious dogmatists' problem is exactly the same as the story's unbeliever: blind certainty, a close-mindedness that amounts to an imprisonment so total that the prisoner doesn't even know he's locked up.
The point here is that I think this is one part of what teaching me how to think is really supposed to mean. To be just a little less arrogant. To have just a little critical awareness about myself and my certainties. Because a huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded. I have learned this the hard way, as I predict you graduates will, too.
Here is just one example of the total wrongness of something I tend to be automatically sure of: everything in my own immediate experience supports my deep belief that I am the absolute center of the universe; the realist, most vivid and important person in existence. We rarely think about this sort of natural, basic self-centeredness because it's so socially repulsive. But it's pretty much the same for all of us. It is our default setting, hard-wired into our boards at birth. Think about it: there is no experience you have had that you are not the absolute center of. The world as you experience it is there in front of YOU or behind YOU, to the left or right of YOU, on YOUR TV or YOUR monitor. And so on. Other people's thoughts and feelings have to be communicated to you somehow, but your own are so immediate, urgent, real.
Please don't worry that I'm getting ready to lecture you about compassion or other-directedness or all the so-called virtues. This is not a matter of virtue. It's a matter of my choosing to do the work of somehow altering or getting free of my natural, hard-wired default setting which is to be deeply and literally self-centered and to see and interpret everything through this lens of self. People who can adjust their natural default setting this way are often described as being "well-adjusted", which I suggest to you is not an accidental term.
Deep thought for today.
Make sure to read the whole thing, via Dave Rogers
Karl at Monday, May 5, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
Java Application Servers Without J2EE
infoq: SpringSource Launches New Application Server without Java EE
SpringSource Team Blog: Introducing the SpringSource Application Platform
SpringSource: http://www.springsource.com/web/guest/products/suite/applicationplatform">SpringSource Application Platform
Not directly related at all, but has everything to do with it:
The Daily Profeth: Google App Engine & eclipse (PyDev) - a nice getting started guide.
Karl at Monday, May 5, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack
I've been tagged!
This is weird. I am almost never at a loss for words, but this time I've been for over a week now.
Antonella Pavese tagged me to share my favorite historical figure and five random/weird things about him or her.
That's a hard one! While I've read few biographies, I do consider myself a bit of a history buff.
Anyways, as soon as I figure out my favorite, I'm in. Coming soon...
Karl at Monday, May 5, 2008 | Comments (0) | TrackBack