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6.28.2007

The Tax Code, only neater

Dorothy, of Cat and Girl fame, is illustrating the Schedule C Principal Business or Professional Activity Codes, and it's as fun as Ape Lad's Hobo Names Project, if you ask me.

I am eagerly awaiting the Graphic Design Firm code illustration.

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6.26.2007

Participatory Action Research for Educational Leadership book update

I got this e-mail from our editorial coordinator at SAGE yesterday:

Hello Alana, Alan, and Margaret,

It is my pleasure to let you know that Participatory Action Research for Educational Leadership has gone to press today, on schedule, for printing in July.

Your patience as we worked out the kinks in order to get your book into great shape has been greatly appreciated. I wish the book all the success that it deserves!

Best regards,

Tracy


I can't tell you how excited I am to see this on-press and nearly on the shelves!

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6.21.2007

Favorite Book Cover for June: Bicycling & the Law

Check it out:


and it's apparently a pretty good read, too.

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6.15.2007

Sally Kraus, the form-filling internet robot

To the real Sally Kraus: there's a bot programmer out there who owes you an apology. Especially if you really have the phone number 781-658-2687, and live in Boston. Because that programmer is using that info on a bot that (after a quick Google search confirmed) is filling out comment forms on everything from my site to an arm wrestlers' league message board.

In a way it is funny, and in another more pragmatic way it gets in the way of my business. It takes up time and attention, and the only way around it (for now) is if I put in one of those nasty image-based word/letter combinations that a commenter has to enter before the post gets accepted. Which would make it harder for a genuine commenter to post as well... so, not for me.

To the owner of the Sally Kraus bot: ok, we get it. It works. It posts really inane comments on message boards and comment pages. Comments like "Your site is very useful". So you can call it home, turn it off, and stop. Go back to your junior high school social studies homework, or whatever you are supposed to be doing.


cheers,


Alan

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6.07.2007

Do you know the way to San Jose?

I do, and I am here, in northern California, to prove it. I am here to see some fun clients, and I'll catch my friend Nick's work at the Comedia Dell'Arte (sure I misspelled it right there, being the uneducated boob that I am) over the weekend.

Initial impression: everyone here has a laptop, and they all hang out at the Borders store to work.

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