BurningbirdI am in the midst of converting Wordform’s architecture into supporting multiple weblogs. The procedure I worked out, over coffee at Border’s, is the following: Pull the SQL statements out of all the application files and incorporate them into one file. The reason for this is to help me identify all of the SQL bits […]
…from this weekend, a couple of neighborhood type things came up. First, Mr. Delacour has finally gotten off of pot. Oh, excuse me, I have that wrong (need more bananas) — he’s gotten off the pot and rejoined the land of the, urh, well, us. Whatever us is. Oh yeah! Apple Mac OS X using webloggers! You gotta love […]
The St. Louis metropolitan area lost its last chance for a White Christmas when the major storm headed our way was actually pushed to the south of us by our cold, blustery weather. A few years back, I would have been disappointed, but now I’m philosophical, having learned to let go of all holiday expectations. […]
The photos in the last post were from a hike I took to Crane Lake on Sunday. I read in this new hiking book I bought, that it was an ‘easy/moderate’ hike, with a north loop of 3 miles around the lake; a southern loop 2 miles in length, with an end at the dam […]
A haibun is a combination of prose and haiku, with the haiku usually reflecting the writing, but not necessarily directly referencing it. It provides a personal perspective while still being detached; humorous and light, regardless of topic. I learned about this style of writing from Loren Webster, who provided a particularly deft haibun today, about sexual desire […]