Nope, I don't worry about that anymore 

Somebody asked me today if I worry about being such a flake on my blog. No, I don't. I used to think I needed to be all formal and "professional" when I worked in PR and wore suits and had a secretary and a staff and all that. I know how to play the game, but something changed when I got older. I decided it was important to me to be the same person everywhere I was. A poet's soul gets stifled in a suit. I don't make as much money as I used to. I don't have the same status at work. But man, what a load it takes off not to pretend.

Besides, it's kind of a filter. If people who might want to work with me on a moonlighting project or community project can't see any value amid the eccentricities, then I probably don't want to work with them. You know?

People who do work with me find out I'm what you might call a dependable, high-functioning flake. ;-)

Women hide their quirks under bushel baskets 

I do think there's a loop when it comes to women eccentrics. While an old man's oddness often is viewed as charming -- an example is the adorable absent-minded professor -- a woman eccentric isn't as well tolerated. She's scarier somehow. So women learn to hide their quirks, and nobody learns that what they're really about, and they're not tolerated, so they hide their quirks, and nobody learns...

l’Outil d’Amiloo 

A French blogger likes my little mobile visualization tool. Merci. Ça ne fait rien.

Looteel domeeloo. Backwards, it almost sounds like the description of a tool: Ooleemod leetool.

Now here is an important question for someone who has far too much time for trivia. I have this little act I sometimes fling on people when they least want to hear it; I sing Hit the Road, Jack in pig latin. Once, I got pretty far in working out how to sing the Marseilles in French pig latin, but a linguist friend said I should leave off the articles. I figured that would be cheating, though it would be more practical because you do end up with a whole lot of extra syllables in pig latin, which is probably why nobody except me even tries to render songs and poems in it. I figure that's what makes it funny.

They're trying 

ABC-TV is offering the Path to 9/11 free online. You can't download it; looks like you have to get a special player for it?

This is a pattern, isn't it? Big media trying to get a clue but just missing: AOL user data scam, Spiral Frog. It's almost cute.

Here's another unsolicited tip, ABC. On navigation. I saw an ABC news guy last night interviewing Richard Clarke and he mentioned that Clarke had commentary on the ABC site about the movie. This morning I visited the home page specifically to find it and spied two likely looking places to click. The Path to 9/11 video page didn't have any related links. The blogs listing seemed promising but they were all for soap operas, and I couldn't find a link to all blogs from either the home page or from individual blogs.

Then, I thought, maybe it's under news, which I know is treated separately at networks (but you know, your internal organization doesn't mean a thing to users).

I searched in news for Richard Clarke, but the results were all from last year.

I considered going to the forums to see if a user might have linked to the Clarke commentary, but by that time I'd lost interest.