BurningbirdI have started uploading my many images to flickr, and managed to ‘meet’ some new photographers in the process. I’ve not generally been fond of social networks, but when you have a site where the members have a shared interest–photography–doors open, experience broadens. There are so many ways to organize your photos, and I have […]
Today was a really beautiful day and I took a break from coding to walk around the Botanical Gardens to see if all the bulbs were up. It’s now the peak blossom season, and the gardens are full of blooms, including what looked to be at least 15 varieties of daffodils. It was busy today […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I received an O’Reilly email update today about a new edition of Head First into Java just hitting the streets. I had reviewed the Head Into series a while back, and particularly liked the EJB book. Seeing the book notice today reminded me of the discussion on the O’Reilly ETech […]
Loren Webster has taken his new addictionfascination with PhotoShop and combined it with philosophical reminisces of cars he’s owned into a set of really lovely posts, beginning with this one about a boy and his Studebaker. I like every form of writing I find in weblogs, being more interested in the person and/or work rather any specific type, […]
I received a copy of The Zen of CSS Design: Visual Enlightenment for the Web from the authors, Dave Shea and Molly Holzschlag, and have been getting an intimate peek into the world of web page design the last few weeks. This is a beautiful book, with an elegant and clever layout, and featuring many examples of the famous CSS Zen […]