Note from 2023 when this was recovered: No, I was wrong. Brooks is the pawn of the devil, and he’s not worth listening to. Loren Webster talks about too many bridges being burnt, and I can identify with this. I am at that point now where I am thinking of burning some bridges, an impulse brought […]
Day: November 6, 2004
Disconnected a wee bit sooner
I guess I’m offline much sooner than expected, as my cable internet connection failed last night. Since I’m not ready yet for this, haven’t installed all I needed, and since I’m paid up until the 20th, a repairman is coming on Monday. Now I’m at Panera, having a lovely Danish and latte, on a beautiful […]
Cat Friday blogging
It hit me yesterday about noon that what we all really needed was a dose of cat blogging. However, rather than disturb the little princess, otherwise known as Zoe, to take more photos of her, I thought I would go to the zoo and take photos of the big cats. First up was the exhibit […]
Back to biz
My internet connection burst back into life after we replaced the cable wire, so I was able to return to work on getting my Mac ready for Open Source development. Installing and configuring MySQL and WordPress was quite simple, and matched the instructions at MacZealots; except that I am using an older PHP/MySQL client, with it’s […]
Wiki and Weblogs
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray wrote a short note on weblogs and wikis, basically saying that contrary to assertions at Sun and elsewhere that the two are convergent, they’re both very different: A wiki is a collaborative construction engine, with refactoring and edit-in-place being the dominant forms of activity, and many equal voices […]
