BurningbirdThanks to Sam Ruby for a heads up on a potentially nasty problem with Google’s new Web Accelerator, and badly designed REST applications. He linked to two sites that go into the details. The short version is that users of a specific web service were finding that they were losing data and after investigation, the service discovered that the Web Accelerator was the culprit. […]
I am working on a programming project for a friend, and also writing another longish “Missouri Tale”, but in honor of Mother’s Day I thought I’d share photos I took yesterday of a very rare plant: the wild azalea. The plant is also known locally as a “honeysuckle” and considering that Japanese honeysuckle is an invasive species […]
As I sit here with my laptop on my lap after 16 hours of work and writing, writing and work, I realize that I need an outdoor break. The weather is going to be warm, too warm for me, but this time of year, early morning trips are the best — birds everywhere, and the […]
One last note on this overworn topic: from the comments I’m reading, perhaps what we should do is keep the blogrolls, but throw away the writing. Joking! Well, kind of. Melanie McBride wrote in my comments: To be honest, the blogs I’ve read that don’t have blogrolls appear to be doing something not disimilar to traditional […]
Aside from my earlier babble, I have also been productive today: fixing Uncle Joe’s layout so that it works in IE 6.x in Windows; working on a page sidebar modification for Molly; and finishing up the Sessum’s Portal page. The two images in the background for the portal page are Creative Commons licensed images at Flickr, hopefully reflecting […]