BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. The best time to go for a drive in the country in Missouri is late Sunday afternoon, and yesterday I spent several hours wandering around Highway 94. This road is a mix of old and new, and very unique — from the open bar that attracts bikers in Defiance, to […]
The weather was fine, just right for biking along the Katy Trail. The heat spell earlier in the week had broken, just a little, and though sweat was still forming a track down her back, a slight breeze sent cool fingers up her spine. Unlike the first two days of her trek, when the heat […]
On Groundhog Day, I’ll have had my Kindle for a year. I’ve been working on an anniversary review of the device, which will get posted either to the Frugal Algorithm or Secret of Signals. Or perhaps a bit in both, not sure. The buzz about the Kindle now is that a 2.0 version is coming […]
f I had known Sitepoint would be hiring I may have held back from telling the lead designer that he’s full of bull. He was full of bull, though, with his exhortation to XHTML users to grow up. Still, another opportunity lost. There is no room in this economy for the critic. At least, not unless one is […]
My WordPress site has now gone live: The Frugal Algorithm. In the opener I wrote We are too often seen as consumers in a disposable society, whose primary interest is what new toy to buy, and how much garbage we generate. When faced with difficult times, we buckle down reluctantly, anxiously waiting when the times are better and […]