http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406 Always hits the gold. http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Donna Bowman Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:59:20 -0500 Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:59:27 -0500 iBlog 2.0 RC2 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070729195230/index.html Union, Trueheart, and Courtesy is now housed at uniontrueheart.blogspot.com. Please update your bookmarks, reader feeds, and blogroll links.This legacy site will stay active as long as I keep my dot-Mac account and don't need the storage space this takes up. Feel free to continue to link to old content here; it'll stay up for the foreseeable future. Sun, 29 Jul 2007 19:52:30 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070729195230/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070722193833/index.html As we completed our walk around the neighborhood tonight, I caught Archer narrating to himself in the style of the audiobooks they've been giving away in Wendy's kids meals."We hope you have enjoyed this unabridged presentation of 'The Scorekeeper,' by Archer," he intoned. "Text copyright 2007 by Archer. Production copyright 2010 by Random House, Inc. All rights reserved."On the new UTC today: Part the First of another soon-to-be-abandoned blog series, this one on Places I've Lived. Sun, 22 Jul 2007 19:38:33 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070722193833/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070721222920/index.html Suddenly I'm getting Tasha-esque amounts of reading and viewing done -- check out the updates for the last few days on the master film and book list. Those'll be the first items moved over to the new UTC when I make the break with iBlog permanent (that's when, not if ... I'm attached to my blogspot home now). Today's entry segues from my enduring fascination with paint to barely-disguised bragging about how smart my kids are, with minimal logical connection. Sat, 21 Jul 2007 22:29:20 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070721222920/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070720190857/index.html There's a wonderful moment after one book-for-hire is finished (in this case, the wonderful Peony in Love, which I'll be reviewing next week) and before the next one needs to be started, when I can pick up comics -- COMICS! -- and read them with unbridled joy. So I'm midway through Alison Bechdel's highly acclaimed Fun Home and can't wait until bedtime when I can finish it. Today's entry at the new UTC considers (very briefly) the intersection of money and funny. (No, not counterfeiting -- fiscal comedy.) Fri, 20 Jul 2007 19:08:57 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070720190857/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070719205322/index.html Inspired by tonight's viewing of Shane Meadows' melancholy portrait of desperate nationalism, This Is England: the Arkansas Democrat-Gazette Letter Of The Week. Thu, 19 Jul 2007 20:53:22 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070719205322/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070718184517/index.html I forgot one that cracked me up. A couple of days ago, Cady Gray had what I kindly termed a "tricky day" with her toilet training -- lots of accidents. "Remember what Mrs. Floyd [Archer's kindergarten teacher] always says," I told her. "If you can't make a mistake, you can't make anything at all."A few minutes later, she repeated back to me, "Remember what Mrs. Floyd says!" "What does she say?" I prompted.Cady Gray hesitated, then answered loudly and decisively: "Don't make a mistake!"Words to live by. Anyway, today's entry at the new UTC has nothing to do with kids, but it is no less a navel-gazing affair for that. Check it out. Wed, 18 Jul 2007 18:45:17 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070718184517/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070717190736/index.html Lazy "cute things the kids say" post over at the new UTC. Also, learn what those geniuses who invented 20q.net have been up to lately (Italian and Dick Vitale, for starters.) Tue, 17 Jul 2007 19:07:36 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070717190736/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070716182447/index.html ... is one of my favorite oddball words. I love the way it quickly infiltrated the language, displacing the more common "normality," when Warren G. Harding used it on the campaign trail. We've completed our own "return to normalcy" now that a non-conference work week has started, and I celebrated with a nice slow day of "Ask the A.V. Club" answers, interlibrary loan requests, and answering long-delayed e-mails. Today's post over at the new UTC is part one of "editorials that got my back up." If there's enough public demand, I'll do part two tomorrow. Mon, 16 Jul 2007 18:24:47 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070716182447/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070715215548/index.html Just got back from seeing the new HP flick -- eh. I liked some of the effects, and it was nice to see more of Gary Oldman and Alan Rickman than we did last year, but I found the pseudo-momentous pacing and the dead-serious pep talks every 20 minutes or so tedious. Oh, there's a post at the new UTC with 300% more Muppets than I saw at the theater this evening. Enjoy. Sun, 15 Jul 2007 21:55:48 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070715215548/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070714200410/index.html The three days are over, and (no blasphemy intended) I'm ready to come back to life. Our conference was, by all measures we could think of, a success. But I feel like I dropped off the face of the earth for half a week. Today's entry, inspired by a disparaging remark about online communication dropped by a conference participant, is over at the new UTC.By the way, the software company clarified that the free upgrade only applied to paid licenses, not to the free one I got four years ago. So I paid up. Whether that will give me an incentive to stick with iBlog, or whether I'll get addicted to the blog-anywhere ease of Blogger ... we'll have to see. Sat, 14 Jul 2007 20:04:10 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070714200410/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070713212616/index.html Still consumed by the tech conference, blogging it on HCOL. After a three-hour dinner at Mike's Place, tonight's entry on the new UTC might be a little food-focused. Tomorrow: my first visit to the Clinton Presidential Library, where one can buy many unapologetically FOB items. Fri, 13 Jul 2007 21:26:16 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070713212616/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070712192752/index.html Then you'll love today's blog entry over at the new UTC. And you'll also love what's like to come tomorrow and Saturday, since (like today) I'll be spending 12 hours sitting with other Honors people talking about technology -- in a conference format. Thu, 12 Jul 2007 19:27:52 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070712192752/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070711185801/index.html In an attempt to see whether Google can win me over yet again, today's post can be found at uniontrueheart.blogspot.com, the all-new Union, Trueheart, and Courtesy. Old content -- along with links to new daily content posted at the new Blogspot and at Toxophily -- will continue to be found here. And I reserve the right to change my mind at any time. See you at the New UTC. Wed, 11 Jul 2007 18:58:01 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070711185801/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070710175655/index.html You regulars may have noticed an unexplained hiccup in the daily blogging schedule yesterday. I fired up the ol' iBlog only to be greeted by a notice: "Your trial period has expired. Please register your software." Tue, 10 Jul 2007 17:56:55 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070710175655/index.html http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070709190733/index.html We've never had HBO (or Showtime) -- I have a pathological aversion to acquiring subscriptions and accumulating monthly expenses that stretch on and on forever. (That's also high on our list of reasons we have a prepaid cell phone.) So we catch up with the buzz shows, like The Sopranos, Deadwood, Big Love, The Wire, Entourage, etc., on DVD six months or so behind the times. (Well, we've never even started with Entourage.) Mon, 09 Jul 2007 19:07:33 -0500 http://homepage.mac.com/donnadb/iblog/B916639406/E20070709190733/index.html