BurningbirdFrom Weather Underground today: January 2006 will go into the record books as one of the warmest januarys ever recorded in parts of the Midwest. In Quincy Illinois… this past January was the warmest January on record… while in Columbia and St. Louis this January ranks in the top 5 warmest januarys. Specifically… St. Louis… […]
Last time you get lava lamp photos, my little duckies. In celebration of that fact, a few links and other assorted non-lava lamp related items: Sheila Lennon points us to a Providence Journal presentation honoring Martha and Waitsill Sharp, the 2nd and 3rd Americans named to Israel’s “Righteous Among the Nations” for their work in helping Jews […]
The joy of being known for one’s interest in cephlapods is that one gets links to all sorts of interesting stories. A friend who walks among us, cloaked as King Henry did among his men before battle, sent me a link to a weblog post with a link to a story about a giant octopus attacking a mini-submarine. This […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Weblogging is not ‘tech’. Weblogging uses technology, but is not, in and of itself, ‘technology’. Weblogging conferences are not technology conferences — not unless the focus of the conference is building software, not using it. When you’re a weblogger, this doesn’t mean you’re a ‘tech’. You might be both a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Yesterday I kicked off my 2006 season of orchid photography, but I don’t have any orchid photos to show you. I’m holding all the orchid photos until the end of the shooting season, when I’ll make the best into a show hosted on my new development server using my new […]