Yesterday was sunny and cold and I specifically headed out to a place that suited both conditions: The Castor Shut-Ins at the Amidon Conservation area. In a book I read, the author mentioned how during cold weather the water around the rocks would freeze into crystalline formations, adding to the beauty of the place. It […]
Adapting Admin for extensibility
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Many of the earlier changes I’m making to WordPress will be behind the scenes, in the administration pages. In fact, when I finish these changes, I probably will release a copy of the product as it will then be sufficiently different enough from WordPress to have earned status as a […]
Out, damn’d open source! out, I say!
I have had an usual number of requests for files this last week. These are files that I’ve either accidentally removed during moves between tools; or deliberately removed because I need the space for new development. Among files accidentally lost were ones for my post Stepping Stones to a Safer Blog, about how to make Movable […]
Mars attacks
Version 1.0 of MarsEdit released last week , and Steven Spielberg and Tom Cruise celebrated by issuing the first trailer for the upcoming remake of the ultimate sci-fi classic, “War of the Worlds”. I am not surprised that War of the Worlds is being re-made, and not terribly surprised that Spielberg is trying it. I am surprised at Tom […]
It’s the oddest thing
It’s it the oddest thing how you start to write one thing, but end up writing something completely different. My last post was to be about a new facility here at Burningbird, but ended up being anything but. Anyway, before I lose this post, I wanted to point you to Planet Burningbird. This is a site […]
