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. […]
Category: Just Shelley
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 […]
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Technical writing and thankless tasks
I think that both Dana Blankenhorn and Marius Coomans will be good for open source, as they both question the concept without worry of offending the legions of open source fans, and seemingly without any axe to grind. Dana recently questioned the lack of documentation and support associated with open source projects. In particular documentation, writing: Documentation, […]
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I am mistress of all you see
I grew up in an age when playtime was a time for our parents to get rid of us so they could do whatever they needed to do without us underfoot. Our parents seldom monitored how we played together, and even in the school yards you rarely heard, “Play nice, children!” Kids were scraped and […]
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Spell check your comments
Cold Forged did a very nice encapsulation of spell checking as a plug-in for WordPress. I grabbed the code and incorporated it as a new option in my comments’ pages so you can spell check your comments–both the live comment, and the saved comment in the edit window. But will we have as much fun without our […]