BurningbirdA couple of things: Thanks to both Squidblog and Pharyngula for the eye opening explanation behind numerous sea monster sightings. Leads one to wonder what could be behind Nessie? We found out that our panel at SxSW will be on Sunday around noon. High noon in fact, which Kathy will appreciate: I’m also doing a panel at SXSW with Dori Smith, Shelley Powers, and Virginia […]
I could wish that the weather was a little less wet as I’ve not been able to get out much. I hope to visit the town where I was born and raised on Thursday. I will have to settle for Thursday as the rest of the time the weather promises rain or snow, or rain […]
Spending two days on a train is an interesting experience, one that could be improved by spending the extra money for a sleeper. No matter how comfortable the coach chairs are, they are not conducive to sleep. I had a chance to see Illinois’ fall colors on the trip from St. Louis to Chicago. It […]
One of the programming jobs I’ve had recently was to provide PHP functions to access the Newsgator SOAP API; hiding as much of the SOAP bits as possible. I used the nuSOAP PHP library as the basis for my work. Though SOAP functionality is built into PHP 5, my client, like most people, are still […]