BurningbirdI visited the Butterfly House at Faust Park yesterday for the first time. I wasn’t expecting much when I arrived; I’ve been to other butterfly houses, and the number of visitors seemed to be disproportionately larger than the number of butterflies. However, when I entered the Butterfly House’s glass dome, within a few seconds a […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. While we debate the merits of DRM as compared to the evils of DMCA, I am having connection problems. Currently I have Charter Pipeline, through a Netgear M314 wireless router to my machines. I am having problems with DNS lookups that are failing more frequently, though I am still connected […]
Yesterday was an absolutely beautiful day, almost 70 degrees. There was a breeze, but it was warm and gentle and one could go about with a light jacket and feel just right. I hadn’t been up to Shaw in a long time because of the road construction on I-44. The state is adding an extra […]
I have a post coming later on a lovely walk I had yesterday. With photos, of course. In the meantime, I think I’ve made my last, my absolute last, tweak of the design for Burningbird. I’ve lightened the blockquote colors, and added a graphic at the end of the content column in the main page. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Doc Searls points to a weblog post by the Guardian Unlimited’s Lloyd Shepherd on DRM and says it’s one of the most depressing things he’s read. Shepherd wrote: I’m not going to pick a fight with the Cory Doctorows of the world because they’re far more informed and cleverer than me, but let’s […]