BurningbirdTried to upgrade OS on my Mac, and it has failed badly. I’m right now in the middle of running fsck -yf to try and repair the volume, though it seems to be hanging on “Repairing volume” an awfully long time. I’m beginning to worry. I’ll try all the tricks I can and then probably […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The Architecture of the World Wide Web, First Edition was just issued as a W3C recommendation. I love that title – it reminds me of Monty Python’s “The Meaning of Life”, volume one. Interesting bit about URIs in the document. To address the ‘resource as something on the web’ as compared to […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Over the last several months, I’ve been moving more and more of my work from my Windows/Linux dual-boot laptop to my Mac. Now with the open source development environment working so effortlessly in my PowerBook, there’s little reason to stay with my other machine. I still get Excel spreadsheets and […]
My internet connection burst back into life after we replaced the cable wire, so I was able to return to work on getting my Mac ready for Open Source development. Installing and configuring MySQL and WordPress was quite simple, and matched the instructions at MacZealots; except that I am using an older PHP/MySQL client, with it’s […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Tim Bray wrote a short note on weblogs and wikis, basically saying that contrary to assertions at Sun and elsewhere that the two are convergent, they’re both very different: A wiki is a collaborative construction engine, with refactoring and edit-in-place being the dominant forms of activity, and many equal voices […]