I started out taking a break because I needed it, and I came back because of work on the RDF book. I opened my mouth — again — which has not had universally postive results. News that started out good turned out to be not so good; and friendships have been permanently lost. Friends mean […]
Month: December 2002
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Save Dr. Dotty from the Quicksand
Copy from the Wayback Machine Archive. Dr. Dotty is exploring in the jungle and accidently walks into quicksand. The object of the game is, of course, to save Dr. Dotty. The Save Dr. Dotty from the Quicksand games are a variation of the old paper game “Hangmans’s Bluff”. The object of the game is to […]
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George and the Mixture
Robert approached the area with caution, continuously checking to make sure he wasn’t followed. At one point he stopped, sure that he heard the soft sound of footsteps echoing faintly behind him. Listening, hardly daring to breath, he strained his hearing until his head ached with the effort. “Must be my imagination”, he thought to […]
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Phantoms in the Photographs
As I was building my albums in my new photo gallery, I noticed that very, very few of my photographs have people in them. And if people are present, they’re distant, anonymous, face hidden from the camera. I didn’t, consciously set out to stage photographs in such a way that no human is in them. […]
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All you need is PHP
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sam Ruby says life changed for him, for the better, when he discovered PHP: Later this month I turn 41. For me, the last three felt like ten. In a good way. … What changed it all for me? PHP I’m writing the first release of Post Content in PHP, so I’m […]