BurningbirdIn early 2002 I was living in a condo overlooking the bay in San Francisco. I had just finished a gig with Stanford University and was confident about quickly finding new work. After all, I hadn’t been unemployed once in the years since I graduated college. In fact, I could usually count on having multiple […]
The weather was fine, just right for biking along the Katy Trail. The heat spell earlier in the week had broken, just a little, and though sweat was still forming a track down her back, a slight breeze sent cool fingers up her spine. Unlike the first two days of her trek, when the heat […]
My WordPress site has now gone live: The Frugal Algorithm. In the opener I wrote We are too often seen as consumers in a disposable society, whose primary interest is what new toy to buy, and how much garbage we generate. When faced with difficult times, we buckle down reluctantly, anxiously waiting when the times are better and […]
I have an egg. A perfect egg. I am lost in admiration of my perfect egg. But I am hungry. I must break the egg. I break the egg. It is awful. Slimy, wet, with a bulbous yellow eye. And I am sad. But look! I have an omelet! A perfect omelet! I am lost […]
And with all the unpleasantness this weekend, including a comment breaking my XHTML, captured for posterity by the playful, puckish, Anne, I find that I have misunderstood one key element of the RDFa specification, and have embarrassed myself greatly. Why is every time I touch anything to do with the W3C or associated mailing lists, I […]