BurningbirdMy brother asked me what I wanted to keep of my father’s and I answered without hesitation, his cane. Upon further reflection, I also asked for his books, and I’ll borrow the photos long enough to make digital copies. I bought Dad the cane years ago when he starting slowing up a bit, at the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Another entry from Slashdot, this one about an alternative to SQL, based on SQL guru Chris Date’s innovations in the field. This alternative, known as ‘Tutorial D’, would seek to eliminate some of the more persistent relational DB problems, such as that pesky multi-meaning null. Is a field null because it makes no […]
A Schedule of the Daily Menus for the IT Kitchen is as follows, and you can sign up for Kitchen Duty here. Appreciations in advance for those who join the fun: October 25th: Smart Mobs? Or just Mobs The issues of group behavior, for good and bad Elitism and the effect of the cult Impact of […]
The folks at Misbehaving noted the lack of women in the photos from the Web 2.0 conference. As Liz Lawley wrote: Via Anil, I just saw Jeff Veen’s post on “What do these pictures have in common?” Be sure to click on the “See what you’ve won!” button. Like the first commenter, I wish he’d write the […]
Yesterday, I and my roommate attended my brother’s celebration of life for my father in Bloomington. I asked my roommate to drive over, because I had several scenes I wanted to try photographing as we were traveling. I set a higher ISO, 640, and a very high shutter speed, 1/3200, and then set the camera to shutter […]