It’s been a month since my website was hacked and poisoned with malware. Since then, the tech guys have been working valiantly to du-bug the site, fix broken code, and move tenpound.com to a new host. Somehow, all this activity disabled my email and, for an exciting couple of days, I was dead in the […] More >>
Of Webb and the Web
William Henry Webb was one of those American geniuses who come along every generation. Men of his type are not noted for their poetry or invention, but for their ability to assemble and organize all the disparate parts of what is known and, from this synthesis, to establish new standards of efficiency and scale. The […] More >>
Nocturnal Pigeons
Journal of a 49er, Boston to San Francisco. Details below. The Long March down Market Street from dinner to hotel, under the incurious eyes of urban mutant nocturnal pigeons, homeless freaks, orchestras of ranting crazies, exploding beards, tenor saxophone geniuses born on the wrong planet. Jesus is coming. Sleeping bags in fetid windrows on the […] More >>