Check out NickNews. Most of my current writings are there, now. This will phase out and be re-directed there at some point, probably.

Compare reality to your perception and all kinds of goodness happens. Go down to the bottom of the link and read the little story about Dave's orange ball.

Psychotherapists have been using a similar narrative to help patients, particularly in marriage counseling, for years. It's a good story to live by. But guess what, this is really an allegorical description of what's happening to the internet today.

Unless you're a software developer on top of cutting edge technologies like XML-RPC, RSS, SOAP you're probably not aware of the impending sea changes in the way we'll be able to use the internet very soon. (I'm not a developer, but I've been looking over some shoulders, peering in, and picking up what I can). And I can sense it in the thousads of non-programmer people like me that are simply writing on the internet. I can't describe the changes exactly......but I can sense it. I'm already reading hundreds of items daily - as soon as they're posted on the internet. I don't have to visit their sites - it's coming straight to me. I am simultaneously sending stuff out to anyone interested in picking it up and using it in any way they can creatively think of.

I'm pumped.

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