Sidebar quick links, or b-links are very popular now. I wasn’t that interested at first in them until I found myself wanting to point out items of interest, but without writing a great deal about the item. I don’t necessarily like doing little posts with nothing more than a link, so b-links really is a good alternative. […]
Category: Technology
Stuck battery in new TiBook
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I have one of the first runs of the TiBook released in 2001. Yeah, I know – never buy a first anything from Apple. Anyway, it’s a wonderful computer that puts up with all sorts of abuse. However, I can’t get my battery unstuck. I can get it to the point where […]
Mary Janes and Site Design
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. The stylesheets still actually work. Pick one, and reload the page in the Wayback Machine. This page describes both the techniques and the materials I used to create my stylesheets. At the end of the document is links to locations where I’ve borrowed photographs, technology, or graphics – whit my […]
A tale of two technologies
I just published the first two parts of the four-part Tale of Two Monsters. These are something different, with the first covering legends and old sci-fi movies; the second covers the field known as cryptozoology and if you’ve not heard of it, you’ve heard of the beasties this field investigates. Fun stuff. Well, I thought it was […]
Google Email
I had received a Google email invitation a week or so back. Originally I created the account under shelleyp, but I’ve since moved to an account with ‘burningbird’ as the recipient. The original name is too close to my primary email account. And nobody, I mean nobody spells my name correctly. I used a Google invitation to […]
