Workbench

For the last five months, the members of Ground Control to Major Tom have been reading novels to pick our semifinalists that will advance to the next round in the Self-Published Science Fiction Competition (SPSFC).

The spaceship has been moved to the launch pad and gantries shifted into place.

I've been reading commencement speeches by Kurt Vonnegut, which are well-remembered today for mordant wit, dark humor and prophetic warnings about where society was headed.

A vivid memory has kicked off a few days of music nostalgia.

I publish this blog and seven other sites with Wordzilla, a CMS I wrote for myself and have never released.

The RSS Advisory Board just turned 20.

Five days before the Blogs at Harvard server was scheduled for shutdown, I asked Doc Searls on Twitter where his blog would be moving.

My take on Threads is a lot like Amit Gawande's: Threads reminded me of why I eventually fell off the Twitter timeline.

I recently finished John Grisham's The Guardians, a 2020 novel about an Innocence Project-type attorney and Episcopal minister working to free a man wrongly convicted of killing his former attorney in Florida.

There's a marriage proposal in the lettercol of this week's Amazing Spider-Man 28: As a lifelong Spidey fan, I never tire of reading about the adventures of our ever-friendly neighborhood Spider-Man.

My RSS Advisory Board blog post marking 20 years of Atom includes an expression I learned during that project's boundless debate among a hundred people about what to name the format.

With all the attention the RSS Advisory Board has been getting lately, I've been doing some work on the site, primarily to make it look better on mobile.

I picked up Jenna Black's urban fantasy novel Dark Descendant at a Louisiana gas station that still sells paperbacks on a spin rack, reminding me of childhood trips on my 10-speed down the hill in Burleson, Texas, to look for books at the Stop-n-Go.

The W3C publishes a copy of the RSS 2.0 specification on its website as part of the documentation for its Feed Validation Service.

Jay Duplass and Kaitlyn Dever in the 2017 movie Outside In I was trapped in an endless scroll through Netflix movies the other night until I saw one of the Duplass brothers.