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Photography

Rusty flowers

Finally, after a summer of high humidity and warm temperatures, and seemingly endless crowds, yesterday brought a return to the St. Louis that I know and love. The temperatures were cool, the sky darkly overcast, and with the threat of rains, the people stayed home. A perfect day to visit the Missouri Botanical Gardens. The […]

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Burningbird Technology Weblogging

Drupal views and taxonomy pages – updated

Drupal provides a way to list out postings by taxonomy term, but not necessarily by vocabulary, directly. I’ve been using a module, vocabindex, to provide a web page that lists out the taxonomy terms for a vocabulary, but it doesn’t provide exactly what I’m looking for: a way to display posts by vocabulary, in addition […]

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Books

Kindle Coupon

I imagine this will kick start Kindle sales: MobileRead reports thatĀ Oprah Winfrey calls the Kindle her favorite gadget. All due respect to the Big O, I could care less, except that there’s supposedly a $50.00 coupon associated with her favoritism, which you can use when you buy a Kindle. The coupon code is OPRAHWINFREY, lasting […]

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HTML5

Extensibility and markup, again and again

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Proving that the issues with extensibility will never go away until faced, and resolved: Anne van Kesteren: Concerns that HTML5 does not have distributed extensibility. That is, namespaces. What people seem to want is to extend the browser with hundreds of markup languages. (How this keeps things simple to answer […]

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Photography Weather

Soggy state

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The majority of my photos posted recently are from the Missouri Botanical Gardens, or the St. Louis Zoo. I’ve not explored outside of the St. Louis area this last year primarily because of all the rain and flooding we’ve had. Though I was not, personally, directly impacted by the flooding, […]