BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. I love history. Not necessarily the big stories: the world wars, and tales of kings and queens and daring do. No, I like the stories of people who do acts of normalcy that end up creating waves that ripple from small to large to larger until an ocean of change […]
For the first few decades of taking photos I was content to understand apertures and film speeds, the ‘rule of thirds’ and so on. It was while I was looking at possible lenses to add to my kit that I realized there’s a completely new world of photography mechanics I know nothing about. Mechanics of […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Before I started the new weblog(s), I told a friend that I was going to avoid saying anything even remotely critical about BlogHer. It does no good to do so, I told him. I’m sure he knew that I could not follow this vow. I don’t know if being critical […]
My editor, Simon St. Laurent, sent me a copy of my new book cover. The tagline is currently being changed, but when the art department is finished, I’ll post a copy. It’s a companion book to JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, which features a rhino on it’s cover. So what could be more appropriate for a […]
I am beta testing Firefox 2 on one of my machines, and will be writing about the new JavaScript 1.7 in a post over at ScriptTeaser. One of the advantages to Firefox 2 is the spellchecker, which works with all text windows. It really is the way to go, rather than have to enable the […]