BurningbirdI didn’t know that today was going to be a national day or mourning for Ronald Reagan until I took some books back to the library last night and saw the sign saying it would be closed today. I was surprised because it’s not as if Reagan was King or still president, and do we […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The folks behind WordPress have made a step in the right direction by first of all, not deprecating old functions without going through a formal deprecation process. This is to ensure that people have time for a release or two to modify a now deprecated function or global variable before […]
Tuesday’s temperatures were in the 90’s with high humidity so perhaps choosing the Shaw Nature Reserve for my late afternoon walk wasn’t the best of ideas. It did have the advantage, though, of being relatively deserted. Of course it was: sane people don’t walk in swamps during a heat wave. I hadn’t been out to […]
Allan Moult has completely redesigned Leatherwood Online and I like the new look. It’s a variation on the triple column, but giving more prominence to the main content. Allan’s also created a bunch of new blogs to support the site. One new section focuses entirely on the Antarctica, and I think this really gives the site the […]
Dave Shea says, like, “Chill, dudes!” about standards. Like, wow, don’t cop a tude, bizatch! But then my homey Matt goes, Jinkies! Boo that! Bring on the 5-Oh, dude! Don’t murk my standards! Like XHTML is phat, you know? You wanna be part of my posse, you gotta say that yo XHTML is righteous, dude! Like my bluud, Jeffrey. […]