If you slice and dice things the way the software world tries to, it should be impossible for someone to be expressive in both literature and in software. I wish people who reduce the web to technology would take two weeks off and write their personal life story and put it on the web. We could make five years of progress, content-wise, in a few weeks. I took a turn on May 2 in Proof that you Exist and subsequent pieces. After months of swirling around issues of Apple's decline and the ascendance of Java, I felt it was time to take a look at the universe, your existence, bodies and spirits, personal and galactic.
Nothing is created in worlds without love.
A friend asks if galaxies can love each other. My answer was a surprise. Yes, I believe galaxies can love each other. But first comes respect, and with respect, acknowledgement. We're already there.