Burningbird
I always make major site changes during the Christmas holiday. Traffic to my sites is at its lowest, and it just seems a good end-of-year task. I wasn’t quite expecting that the Linode server where my site lives would crash right in the middle of the upgrade, but life isn’t exciting without the little challenges. […]
I said a few years back that when Node.js released version 1.0, I’d issue an update for my book, Learning Node. Little did I know that waiting for Node.js 1.0 was like waiting for Godot, but in JavaScript. I did try to do an update on the first edition of Learning Node earlier this year, but […]
Thirty years ago I was living at my Dad’s in Yakima, going to college. That Sunday was a beautiful day, and Dad was outside in the garden as I was getting ready to go to work. I worked for a photographer who had a studio in the Yakima Mall. I liked working Sundays. Sundays were […]
My Mom kept everything from her high school graduation (class of ’51). This includes a copy of the graduation invite, all of the class pictures given to her from her friends, and photos from her class trip Victoria BC. I loved the messages from her friends. Evidently “swell” was _the_ word in 1951. And I […]
My Mom must have had over a thousand photos, some dating to the 1800s. It will take me months to scan them in and identify them. She had all my Dad’s WWII photos, her family, his family, and my brother and I. I gave her a Nikon Coolpix years ago, when she expressed an interest […]