Category: General

The company where I work is now facing the prospect of layoffs. Although I can accept the reality of that, it still is an unpleasant feeling to be waiting around, wondering if your life is going to be disrupted. There’s an interesting site, Context which is published by the Dalkey Archive people. In case you haven’t already seen them, Spark Online, the Electronic Literature Organization (ELO) and the Arts and Letters Daily are really amazing literary sites. And for me, well www.imaginaryplanet.net isn’t up yet, but it will be soon.

This blogger will mention certain developments in my cyber world. It won’t be very personal; Instead I will focus on things related to my internet hobbies, Last night I posted my final paper for instructional technology on “Covert Learning with Computer Games.” I worked hard on that paper, and found a very interesting course about computer games taught at Stanford.

Today I have been learning about content management systems. That is really an interesting field, and this is a case where the free software is almost better than the commercial software. Camworld.com has the best listings of cms’s . They even have a great mailing list .

For those of you with an absurd sense of humor, here’s a gallery by a serious artist called “Internet p()rnography with the figures removed. ” Don’t worry. The photographer airbrushed the people out of the photos. Who would have ever thought that photographs of such ugly furniture should spark so many erotic musings? Here is my favorite.