Kittens and Letters

22 April 2004

Simon told me to ask you:

When did you last see a kitten in real life?
When did you last write and send a letter? (not an invoice or a tax return – a letter)

My answers:

About six years ago.
I can’t remember ever completing the task. I remember writing a letter once, but I never mailed it.

How about you?

- Drew McLellan

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§ Hans: 1. Never.
2. I once wrote and sent a single postcard… Does that count?
§ amanda owen: 1. About 6 months ago
2. 8 years ago, a series of letters to a (now ex) boyfriend who lived 70 miles away, which felt like another country away at the time.
§ holly: 1. 6 years ago, also, it now lives with us and is no longer a kitten.
2. Last week. A small scrawled note along with a few blank notecards I had created.
§ Tim: 1. 1 hour ago (if our two cats count – we still call them with “Kittens!”)
2. Before I got married – about 4 years ago.
§ waylman: 1. Maybe 5 years ago. It is now the cat that woke me up thismorning. Stupid cat.
2. Bussiness letters – every week
Personal letters – never.
§ Sverrir: 1. Last week
2. Last summer, sent it to Traplet Publications along with some films.
§ Vitaliy: 1. Few hours ago.
2. Cant remember, over 5 years. :o
§ karan: 1. too many years ago to remember exactly
2. last year, unless email-letters count.
§ Jesse Rodgers: 1. Last year
2. 8 months ago.. rather lengthy exchange with the Better Business Bureau over the local power company. Everything had to be in writing.. and I won!
§ Mike: 1. 1.5 Years Ago when we found our 2nd cat in a dumpster. She was about 6 weeks old at the time.

2. About 3 years ago, when I wrote one to my (then)girlfriend (now wife), telling her how much I loved her.
§ Paul: 1. A few weeks ago – a gorgeous kitten playing on the side of the road. I was tempted to catnap it! – My wife loves cats but we can’t have one where we are. :-(

2. Last Christmas – not the‘Christmas mailout’ as that goes by email now, but a friend I met via the web and now has no access to it! We write reasonably regularly… which reminds me, I think it’s my turn! :-P

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About Drew McLellan

Drew McLellan (@drewm) has been hacking on the web since around 1996 following an unfortunate incident with a margarine tub. Since then he’s spread himself between both front- and back-end development projects, and now is Director and Senior Web Developer at edgeofmyseat.com in Maidenhead, UK (GEO: 51.5217, -0.7177). Prior to this, Drew was a Web Developer for Yahoo!, and before that primarily worked as a technical lead within design and branding agencies for clients such as Nissan, Goodyear Dunlop, Siemens/Bosch, Cadburys, ICI Dulux and Virgin.net. Somewhere along the way, Drew managed to get himself embroiled with Dreamweaver and was made an early Macromedia Evangelist for that product. This lead to book deals, public appearances, fame, glory, and his eventual downfall.

Picking himself up again, Drew is now a strong advocate for best practises, and stood as Group Lead for The Web Standards Project 2006-08. He has had articles published by A List Apart, Adobe, and O’Reilly Media’s XML.com, mostly due to mistaken identity. Drew is a proponent of the lower-case semantic web, and is currently expending energies in the direction of the microformats movement, with particular interests in making parsers an off-the-shelf commodity and developing simple UI conventions. He writes here at all in the head and, with a little help from his friends, at 24 ways.

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