BurningbirdZoë had to go in for a rather intensive physical today. She’s always been somewhat of a gorger, chomping down her dry food too fast and than…well..you know. Lately it seems to happen more frequently and we thought it was time to check her out, make sure she’s OK. Zoë’s also moving with more difficulty. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. If wishes were horses, book authors would have a herd. All too often you see the ‘oops’ and such only after the book is in print. In my case, I’ve worked with JavaScript for so long (since the very beginning) I brought along a couple of bad habits that made […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I just posted a note at Mad Techie Woman about an error in the Learning JavaScript book I could kick myself for. It has to do with quirks mode, and the fact that browsers interpret an XHTML document as HTML when served with an .htm extension, and the fact that […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave Winer writes that Daylife is in business. I vaguely remembered hearing something about it once, and then remembered, “Oh, yeah. That’s that Jarvis thing.” To make sure it was that Jarvis thing, I looked it up online and discovered this phenomenally self-referential post at Valleywag, that perfectly explains why I now write […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Sometimes I enjoy writing; other times, I hate being a writer. For those of you who think it would be just wonderful to publish a book: think again. There’s few things that can make you more vulnerable than to work your butt off on something and then have it trivialized, […]