BurningbirdThis one came up during the tech edit and now during the copy edit on my last book: the use of “curly bracket” as compared to “curly braces” or “brace”. I have used the term “curly bracket” for decades, and have seen the term used in other programming contexts. Wikipedia, though not the definitive source of […]
Today I went to the gas station to fill up my tank before this week’s rapid rise in gas prices. The station has two islands, with three filling areas on each side. I drove through the center, between the two islands, which has room to pass even if cars are at both sides. However, I […]
This site, like most others built using a content management system rewrites the dynamic URLs into a static format, primarily to make them more readable. More portable, too, as we move our writings from CMS to CMS. Google has come out with an odd post about static versus dynamic URLs, and it’s better for the Google bot […]
The Congressional Democrats are once again acting the part of Fool to George Bush’s King by allowing themselves to be set up with the current “bail out” of Wall Street. Two weeks ago there was no problem in the economy that couldn’t be resolved on its own. Now, one week before Congress is anxious to […]
Before the build copy of Firefox (known as “Minefield”) upgraded itself on my Mac, dying a horrible and immediate death in the process, one other change I noticed in the upcoming version of Firefox is that color management is now on by default. I also noticed, again before the crash and burn death, that the […]