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. […]
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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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It’s the oddest thing
It’s it the oddest thing how you start to write one thing, but end up writing something completely different. My last post was to be about a new facility here at Burningbird, but ended up being anything but. Anyway, before I lose this post, I wanted to point you to Planet Burningbird. This is a site […]
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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 […]