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The best thing about I’m Not There is Cate Blanchett. Otherwise, the new Dylan movie is a big bore. By using six different actors and settings to portray Dylan, INT gets across its message just fine – that Dylan has refused, all of his life, to be pigeon-holed, though the world has tried its darndest… Read more »

Old Jessibird site retired

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If anyone cares, I took down the old handcoded site at jessibird.org. If you browse to jessibird.org now you will arrive at jessibird.net (the current Jessibird blog). The old site was mainly for my own use, anyway; it had my favorite links and rss feeds, which took some serious coding gymnastics to display. But that… Read more »

The Story About Ping

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My favorite book review ever. Why? Well I read this book to scads of preschoolers over the course of fifteen years, and then I took some networking courses at Cabrillo College…you figure it out. Reprinted verbatim, sans permission, from Amazon. The Story about Ping (Reading Railroad Books) (Paperback) by Marjorie Flack (Author), Kurt Wiese (Illustrator)… Read more »