Category: Writing

Obsolescence and Endurance

Mechanical printing device

Moving a bunch of books and the like around the other day, I came across an old copy of Cabinet Magazine dated Spring 2006. Cabinet is a delightfully eclectic quarterly I pick up from time to time.  I had not read this issue all the way through and fell upon an article by Sam Burton that… Read more »

Technology Writers as Snowballs

People running and playing in snow, watched from a ship

And you want to hire the biggest snowball. The other day I got a new netbook computer, an Asus Eeepc.  Philip, my fellow Word Lion, saw the picture I snapped and posted to Facebook.  We then had a gleeful exchange as we both ranged around the Internet looking for new applications and operating systems for… Read more »