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May 11, 2007

Last night I had the strangest dream...

... I sailed away to China, in a little rowboat to find ya,
and you said you had to get your laundry clean,
didn't want no one to hold you, what does that mean?
and you said...
ain't nothin' gonna break my stride, nobody gonna slow me down,
oh no, I've got to keep on movin'...

As I was trying to write before going off on the song that popped into my head, last night I had the strangest dream. I'd read some blogs before going to bed, and what I read stuck in my brain for awhile. One of the blogs that drifted into my REM sleep last night was Dwight Silverman's TechBlog, which he writes for The Houston Chronicle.

I love reading Dwight's blog. It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of his (I've known Dwight since the mid '90s from early Web days when he contacted me and subsequently wrote about my Web site in a piece he did for the Chronicle.) The thing about Dwight's tech blogging is that it is all-encompassing; I used to think he was a Windows4Ever guy until he went out and bought a MacBook.

uh oh. -- insert look of disbelief here. --

Dwight blogged about the new Mac and he included photos of the packaging, the MacBook itself and a screenshot or 6. ;-) For a while there I thought Dwight morphed into an Apple-ite, he was gushing so much about the Mac. As an Apple user for many years now, this actually made me worry since a lot of Dwight's readers are Windows users and I'd read his Mac posts and think, oh no, he's gone bonkers for the Mac... this isn't good for your readership! His readers went so far as to comment about his Mac musings, but soon I realized that Dwight wasn't favoring Mac, he was simply reporting in the same manner as he did about Windows PCs. Don't misunderstand. Dwight doesn't limit his tech bloging to PCs and Macs; anything and everything that falls under technology appears on his blog. An equal opportunity blogger, that's what he is and why I so enjoy reading what he writes.
(Note: I could add a lot more links in this post pointing to many other topics he's written about, but let's not get ridiculous.)

Is there a point here? Well yeah, there is. I strongly urge you to add Dwight's TechBlog to your list of required daily blog reading. There will always be something in there you didn't know before or missed, and Dwight's style of writing makes it easy for you to comprehend what could be confusing or overwhelming. Run along now and go add his blog to your RSS reader. Oh and one more thing. Today is Friday, and that means open comments day on his blog, where his readers get to wax poetic about anything tech-related. If you've got something to say, stop by his blog, comment, and be sure to tell him I sent ya!

Cindy