event idea: weblog slam. anyone with a weblog could sign up. on a specified day (say Feb. 15th) everyone who signed up would put one poem one their weblog. three judges would score each of the poems on a scale from 1 to 10. also, anyone reading would be able to vote for their favorite. (a factor the judges could take into consideration.) I'm not sure there's enough crossover between poetry and weblogging to make this work. But with as much writing as webloggers do it seems natural. anyone interested? let me know.
I added a little search thing. It searches everything posted since August 31st of this year. (the day I started using blogger, and the day after my birthday!) There is no database involved, btw. It's all XML. wave of the future, I tells ya.
I'm looking forward to the new year. In fact, I think it's going to be wonderful. Mostly because I will never have to read or hear this sentence ever again: The Y2K problem arises from the fear that older computers programmed to read just the last two digits of a year will misread "00'' as "1900'' rather than "2000.'' They've said it over and over. And over. We are not a nation of idiots. We *know* what the problem is. We've known for a long time. I'm not sure why they need to add this into every single story. Maybe the person writing the story just heard about the whole y2k hubub? Maybe they feel it's their duty to inform the poor reader about this problem? This has been wearing on my nerves all year long. And as we've gotten closer to the day and the frequency of y2k stories has increased, this sentence has been like a hammer in my skull. Soon I will be free from the torture! blessed freedom!
ApparitionBeing young is like sweet sunshine flooding the Summer sky.Quiet noon -- Years and months are just the expressions of Earth.Why take note of the never-ending seasons?- Thich Nhat Hanh