JulieLeung.com: a life told in tidepools

I’ve been reluctant to begin blogging again because I know I can’t get started now without first saying I’m missing Anita Rowland. And I don’t think I can write about Anita and do it justice.
I first met Anita through a trackback. It was a relationship based on blogging, with an electronic beginning. Back in August [...]

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If the week between Christmas and New Year is a good time to announce a presidential campaign (by the way, my favorite post of Robert Scoble’s from his time with John Edwards is his Things I Learned and I noted this Time article too), then it’s a good enough time to announce our new family [...]

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I’ve been making some changes in my life and hope to write more about those soon. I am also planning to take this blog in a slightly new direction. First though I would like to post some pieces that are still in the draft folder.
One change I have made is that I am approving [...]

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Due to a number of reasons, including the loss of our laptops and our family’s calendar (three conferences for the two of us in three weeks), it has been difficult to read blogs, write posts and respond to email. My apologies. I am also preparing for SXSW this weekend and what attention and time I [...]

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The list of reasons for my absence is long: I had a headache for three days and Elisabeth’s had a fever for three days too (not the same three days); the server was down one night; we helped with a neighborhood picnic and spruce-up on the weekend; Ted and I transferred my presentation to the [...]

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Images from Thursday May 5:
The day after I had responded to Doc Searl’s Linux Journal piece on the flat world, I spied these items on sale.

Doc had written:In first grade they put me in the slow reading group, because I was uncomfortable reading out loud. I could read; but for me reading Dick and [...]

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Wendy has been shopping for veils, to her own surprise. Her post on her wedding plans in progress helped me remember my own veil.

Our current customs for nuptials originated from several different sources, according to this site. When I was getting married I didn’t know that the veil had once been a way [...]

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I apologize for the burst of blogposts tonight. I’m in a writing mode, and this week I’ve been finally able to finish ideas that have been simmering inside me for a while. My plan for the next few days is to focus on Gnomedex. So please ration accordingly: I am not planning to write many [...]

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Noted (and new to me) tonight:
Consciousness Conspiracy: from the first post The charter of the CC is as follows: All generations and ages have asked similar questions regarding the nature of reality: · Is there a God? If so, why is there so much pain in the world?
Apparently the [...]

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The BlogHer Conference ‘05 was officially announced for July 30 in Santa Clara, CA on blogher.org earlier this month.

BlogHer Conference ‘05 will provide an open, inclusive forum to:
1. Discuss the role of women within the larger blog community
2. Examine the developing (and debatable) code of blogging ethics
3. Discover how blogging is shrinking the world and [...]

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