BurningbirdDanny Ayers points to an RDFWeb discussion entry about providing help with porting the Raptor RDF engine to Windows. Or with getting RDF support built into PHP. Guys, PHP is open source. You don’t have to get the PHP folks to buy into including it as part of the distribution. What you need to do is provide the stripped […]
Originally deleted from an earlier post: If only we could see each other’s eyes A couple of days ago while traveling to my favorite walking path, I came to an intersection full of cops and firetrucks. I knew there was an accident, but didn’t know how bad until I moved around the police car blocking […]
Michael Blowhard at 2Blowhards provides a detailed discussion about why you wouldn’t want to write a book. Among the reasons given, such as only a few hundred people make a living at it, he says that writing a book just isn’t fun: Many people imagine that they’d “fullfill themselves” (whatever that means) if they wrote a book; […]
In my writing about parents being real, I made mention of the fact that medication for depression isn’t the solution for all people. I thought afterwards that some might think I’m critical of those who take antidepressants. I do think that ours is a society that overmedicates, and that too often doctors prescribe antidepressants with […]
We’ve had another heat alert today. Temperatures up to 95-97 degrees, and effective temperature close to 110 degrees. Very hot, and very humid. The only way I can get any walks in is to go early enough in the morning. Trying to walk later in the day, even early evening can leave you feeling faint […]