BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I see that none of you nominated me in any of the categories at the 2004 Weblog Awards including the technical category. Or the photoblog category. Or in the “Small Mammal” category, which I think I was last time I looked. Luckily there’s no ‘hiking weblog’ category, or you’d all be dirt […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Earlier, in response to designer demands for programmers to be more responsive to users, I wrote a post titled Open Source is Like Sex. In it I said that the users need to think about being less passive–to meet the techs half way. Of course, when the users say, “Come on […]
I have a set of hikes I want to go on this winter, but it’s going to be difficult going on all of them if the weather continues so erratically. Weather Underground is normally fairly accurate, but lately, when the forecasters promise sun, we get rain; and when we expect clouds, we get sunshine. Like […]
From what I can see in the stores, this year’s big Christmas item is going to be small, digital music devices — iPods and the like. I’ve looked at them, but anything as small as most of them would be just waiting for me to lose it. Besides I rarely listen to music when I’m […]