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Writing

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I caught up with the reviews of the book at Amazon. Ouch. There was some blame attached to the tech editors on the book, and that’s not fair–they weren’t responsible. These are typographical errors, which are the responsibility of me and the final editing process; or errors in style of writing, and there’s really only […]

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Technology Weblogging

The Survival Guide to LAMP: MySQL and Saving the Pig

In the last two weeks, two WordPress weblog sites have had their sites suspended or moved to interim servers because of performance issues. In both cases, the ISPs who hosted the sites (different companies) sent snapshots of the MySQL processes that caused the problems with the emails. I worked with one of the sites offline, […]

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Burningbird Photography Places

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Here are some of the photos from today’s Alley Spring Mill trip. I need to return in about 3 weeks when the trees have started to green. And I also need to go about mid-morning, when the light on the Mill will be better. It is a wonderous place, though. As was all the countryside […]

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Character

I spent much of the day in the heart of the Ozarks, at Alley Spring Mill. The previous photos I’ve seen of it didn’t do it justice, and neither do the ones I took today. It is an extraordinary place — a mill on a crystal clear river with bright green and pure aqua waters; […]