BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I’ve had a weblog since 1995, my own domain since ’96. My first domain was yasd.com, based on my company name at the time: YASD, inc. YASD stood for “Yet Another Software Developers”, which I thought was a chi-chi clever take on YACC — Yet Another Compiler Compiler. Trust me, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Returning home from my walk yesterday I ended up coughing so hard my head started to pound, and I could literally see stars. I awoke this morning feeling as if a steel band is wound, tight, around my chest. Between that and anxiousness about the new babies to be (who […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. In my weblogging neighborhood, and out in the real world, I tend to go by Shell (or Bb) rather than Shelley. So anytime I read either Shell or Bb, I tend to think it’s about me, since both are somewhat unusual nicknames. So I did a real double-take when I […]
I rented a car and drove to Crissy Field and spent a glorious afternoon walking around the Golden Gate Bridge and the beach. The tide was low and the waves were strong so a lot of surf boarders were out. Takes guts to surf around the GG Bridge. Weather was awesome — brilliant blue skies, […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Ah, oh. Mark Pilgrim was mentioned prominently and positively (deservedly so) in a Slashdot interview on accessibility. That sound you hear is Mark’s 3GB bandwidth allowance being sucked dry. In the re-design of my traditional web sites and weblog (still in process, not rolled out yet), I used Mark’s guidelines to ensure […]