BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. As some of you know, I collect rare minerals, in traditional crystalline habit, thumbnail sized, and with matrix. All of which is just a fancy way of saying that I collect crystals. I started the collection years and years ago with a watermelon tourmaline cross-section, soon joined by dioptase, azurite, […]
Sheila Lennon is celebrating both her birthday (Happy Birthday!) and her two-week vacation by creating a new, experimental weblog, The Reader. And folks, I’m telling you – Sheila has a Voice. How’d we get from bragging about 2.6 readers per newspaper sale to newspaper websites that demand personal information about each reader to get beyond the […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. After a week of trying to get DSL setup and having it work for exactly one day; and after a week of Earthlink not returning calls or following through on promised actions, I’m throwing in the towel. Unfortunately, it doesn’t look as if any other DSL carriers serve my particular […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The markup folks are going to be the weblogging death of me yet. It’s a variation on the classic differences between the back-end or server-side developer and the front-end designer/developer. All front-end folks know that we back-end folks are slobs when it comes to proper markup, clean web pages, and […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Working on ThreadNeedle’s vocabulary tonight. One additional level of sophistication could be to record a posts entire parentage within the RDF e.g. a – b – c – x – f – g The “path” to ‘g’ would be: a – x – f – g This isn’t complete discussion, […]