BurningbirdI have been working on two books the last several months. Well, one is more of an interesting writing project than a book. O’Reilly has created an online writing tool and online book reader, named Atlas and Chimera, respectively. The online writing tool, Atlas, currently uses AsciiDoc to annotate the text, though I believe it is undergoing user […]
There’s a scene in Jurassic Park where the character played by Laura Dern, having just escaped being raptor kibble, sees her close friend (played by Sam Neill) in the distance. She softly shouts out through gritted teeth, “Run! Run!” She’s not telling Neill to run; she’s telling herself to run. She’s not telling Neill to […]
I received a notice from UPS on a package shipped from California. “Train derailment” was all it said. So I have to backtrack to discover that a coal train derailed in Nevada on Sunday, damaging the tracks. The tracks weren’t fixed until Tuesday, which delayed all other trains using these same tracks. My package arrived […]
Folks who have been reading my various publications over the years will know about Golden Girl. Golden Girl is a 2002 Ford Focus I purchased when living in San Francisco a decade ago. She’s my first car, since I didn’t get a driver’s license until later in life. How much later in life is incidental to this […]
Just finished the final tech review of my Learning Node book. At 400 pages, it’s a big book. I must admit to being more than a little tired. Right now, I feel I could sleep for a week. The big announcement in Node land is that unstable 0.7.x is being moved to stable 0.8.x next week. As a […]