habitually probing generalist

29 January is the 5th anniversary of my public blogging. I had a Bloglines private blog for about 9 days before I got fed up with its lack of capabilities. That 1st proto-blog was called In My Secret Life… via Leonard Cohen.
The 1st public-facing blog debuted on 29 January 2005 at bookmark.typepad.com and was called [...]

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In my recent Books Read in 2009 post I talked a bit about what I read last yea and a few other aspects of reading. In this post I want to touch on a few other issues, some of which are orthogonal ways of looking at what I read last year; so partially an update, [...]

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Not sure what any of this means, or why, it is, or if, of importance. Much can be seen of my book reading habits over the last 3 years at this blog [see links at end of post]. According to previous posts, it looks like another banner year in the Lindner household for book reading. [...]

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Change of blog name
I have changed the name of my blog. Again. This time it should not break any of the Internet nor should you need to change feeds; I hope.
3 years ago tomorrow I moved my blog to Wordpress and renamed it Off the Mark. This was after a few years of blogging at [...]

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He’s incommunicado
No comment to make
He’s saying nothing at all
Yeah but in the communique
You know he’s gonna come clean
…
[Communique - Dire Straits]
Seems I don’t have much to say anymore. We’ve all read of the death of blogging. The move to Friendfeed and Twitter. XYZ.
None of those are entirely true. I have plenty to say and a [...]

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Back in March I wrote a longish post about “My personal journey into ebooks.” Things have since changed so I feel that I ought to add some commentary to those thoughts.
As a caveat, these comments only pertain to me, at least as intended. They may apply to you as an individual reader but I do [...]

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Recently I began reading ebooks. Before I address which books specifically and related issues let me put a few things on the table.
Preliminaries:
This post is about my experiences in the recent present and not about the future of what will or might be (even if I comment on that).
I have read quite a fair number [...]

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Back on 29 January 2005 …the thoughts are broken… debuted. That link now goes to the 1st post of this blog since I migrated to WordPress in July 2006.
Wow! Four years already. I haven’t been doing much here since about the middle of last year and I’d like to get back to it. But. I [...]

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(Personal) Change
Some say that the zebra cannot change his stripes.
Some say that everything is change.
Some say “But, Baby, I’m willing to change ….”
The best change is not that which one thinks is impossible,
Nor that which is inevitable.
It is not even that which one desires.
The best change is that which you notice in hindsight.
In the presence [...]

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Not sure where this blog is going this year. I said some things last year about where I wanted to take it / thought it might go and it got nowhere near any of those places.
I read through all of my posts for 2008 on the 1st and 2nd. Wow! What a year! Talk about [...]

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