BurningbirdCold Forged did a very nice encapsulation of spell checking as a plug-in for WordPress. I grabbed the code and incorporated it as a new option in my comments’ pages so you can spell check your comments–both the live comment, and the saved comment in the edit window. But will we have as much fun without our […]
I had a successful venture at the library last week and came home with several very good books. One is Birth of a Chess Queen by Marilyn Yalom, which I found to be a very entertaining book and plan on writing more about later. I also found a book on the Korean “comfort women”, women held as […]
This weekend I also spent time reformatting and re-installing Windows 2000 on my laptop. As I was digging out the old disks, I realized I had forgotten what I needed, it’s been so long since I did a reinstall. And the disk itself was quite old, from the last of my Developer Network subscription in […]
Page archived, with comments, at Wayback Machine Marc Canter called me a couple of months ago about a new concept he was working that would help webloggers make money. The concept became reality today, as several people started making 800.00US a month to promote a new CMS called Marqui. When Marc and I talked, I was ambivalent […]
I discovered that I’m a Google Scholar. I guess this means that you’ll have to treat me with more respect; call me “Ms. Powers” or perhaps “Lady Burning” (please, not “Lady Bird”) and that sort of thing. I don’t normally jump on all the cool gadgets that come out, but the Google Scholar looks to be […]