Blogs of note

sean — Mon, 03 Jan 2005 01:24:00 +0000

I recently read a couple of engaging blogs, both of which can (and possibly should) be read as a contiguous whole, something with which to while away those mundane back-to-work January afternoons.

First, Bob Harris went on a mid-life crisis journey around the world and wrote about it. He has some fascinating insights as a progressive American on the move. For obvious reasons I particularly liked the stuff on South Africa - although I don't agree with every word. Bob Harris did some stand-in writing on Tom Tomorrow's blog.

Second is she's a flight risk by Isabella V, international fugitive. I first saw this just after she started somewhere around a year ago, and was reminded of it by Jamie Zawinski. It's a fascinating story of a rich heiress one the run from her powerful family, hacking into wireless nets with her Linux-running laptop, hanging out with smugglers on tropical islands and just generally living a life less ordinary. One can't help but have doubts about the veracity of the whole thing, but apparently an Esquire journalist has met her for what that's worth.

(Jamie Zawinski - or jwz as he's known - is a bit of a geek legend, one of the early Netscape developers who now runs a nightclub in San Francisco. His blog is a fairly continuous stream of links to web exotica).

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Blogs of note