I have had a strong writer’s block this last month, which has manifested itself as writing to the weblog. As contrary as this seems, what this means is that instead of focusing on the writing I need to do to make a living, I’ve been puttering around here. Unless ya’ll decide to chip in and […]
Month: April 2004
Unbelievable
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Today it got close to 80 degrees (it’s still 70, at 9pm at night), and this is only the beginning of April. So many plants blooming that the air is perpetually perfumed. I took the grammar test. I hate to break it to the neighborhood but… You are a GRAMMAR GOD! If your mission […]
Confetti
I had a bad allergic reaction to one of the medicines the doctor gave me. Ringing in my ears until I can’t hear, severe headache, horrid rash under arms and down sides and on to my breasts, and dizzy, and disoriented. As I wrote someone, perfect weblogging conditions. So I followed the medicine’s instructions (what […]
Extreme O’Reilly
Last of the O’Reilly book review, and I’m going to cover three different brands: the traditional ‘animal’ books, the Missing Manual series, and the Head First series. The RELAX NG book from the animal series is what you’d expect for one of these books. It is a comprehensive coverage of the topic, with relevant examples, lots of text, and few […]
A little light if you please
I think, I think, I think too much. I miss my hour, taken in last nights Daylight Savings Time raid. Time for a bit of lightness before I get serious again: Ben Hammersley has decided to follow that old and obsolute BLX 1.0 standard rather than the shiny new BLX 2.0. As for his claim to have created an RDF […]
