Author Archives: ken

LJ via SMS

You can now use text messages to post to LiveJournal. Not sure how useful that is, of course…

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Protected: Two paperbacks: one potboiler, one award-winner

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Charlie Louvin

Last night at the Rodeo Bar we got to see what makes New York City such a wonderful place for bluegrass, old-time and traditional country. Charlie Louvin played a 2 1/2 hour set, joined by Boo Reiners and Ben Fraker, … Continue reading

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Protected: The Tears Of Autumn — Charles McCarry

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Fort Phoenix, Fairhaven, MA

From which an invading British force was repelled on September 7, 1778. I’m up here for a brief work trip (driving around New England in the fall is not the worst job requirement to have) and heading back to the … Continue reading

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The Quote Server, 1994-2006, RIP

More than a decade ago, I flew home from an Internet conference in San Francisco with the first (pink) edition of Larry Wall’s Programming Perl and a printout of the NCSA Mosaic page on how to write CGI scripts. The … Continue reading

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If You Hear Vague Traces Of Other People’s Songs

If Bob Dylan can take a Muddy Waters song, change the words, and put his own name on it, then he should have no problem with “Mr. Tampering Man,” my latest song. It may bear some resemblance to certain older … Continue reading

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Cities: Destruction On Purpose

The fourth and last part of The Death and Life Of Great American Cities discusses possible tactics to solve some of the problems she discusses. She opens by noting that city planning does not lack for tactics that are “aimed … Continue reading

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Protected: The House Of Mirth — Edith Wharton

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Repeating the Mistakes of the Past

As the plans to build the so-called Freedom Tower get clearer, so does the fact that we’re repeating the terrible mistakes we made when the World Trade Center was built originally. WHen completed in the mid-seventies, the Trade Center dumped … Continue reading

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