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Plants

Haiku of gardens and pillows

I have a secret fetish for gardens and anytime I’m feeling stressed, I spend time out at the Botanical Gardens, Tower Grove, or Shaw. However, when I’m constrained to the house by weather or heat or the need to finish work, I make do with garden weblogs. I’m not sure why, but these weblogs almost […]

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JavaScript Technology

Ajax the Manly Tech

Seems that O’Reilly has had another one of its invite-only summits, but this time about Ajax. If you’ve missed hearing about Ajax, it’s the web development equivalent of tags (as taxonomy) and metaformats (as semantics). This is part of the technology that makes America, well, America. A new twist, though: As you can see from […]

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Technology Weblogging

One more release

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. There is some form of security problem with WordPress 1.5, and the developers haven’t identified it. Since Wordform is based on WordPress 1.5, I’ll have to try and guess what it is to fix it–if I am vulnerable to whatever it is. I’ll be providing one more release of the […]

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Diversity JavaScript

Ajax, the manly technology

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Seems that O’Reilly has had another one of its invite-only summits, but this time about Ajax. If you’ve missed hearing about Ajax, it’s the web development equivalent of tags (as taxonomy) and metaformats (as semantics). This is part of the technology that makes America, well, America. A new twist, though: […]

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Weblogging

Defining fault

The focus on ‘fault’ in the last post was inspired, in part, by the first sentence I read in a weblog post recently. It said: It’s all Burningbird’s fault. When I first spotted it, my reaction was one of feeling flattered rather than angered. I hadn’t thought I had so much impact on the world […]