L is for Linux, A is for Apache, M is for MySQL, and P is for PHP/Python/Perl Open source applications such as WordPress (functioning under a GPL license) are gaining a lot of fans and followers in the last few years. After all, there is an inherent goodness to projects that are free enough to quote Mark Pilgrim. Thanks to increasingly […]
I couldn’t believe it when I heard the tornado alarm tonight. The sky didn’t look that bad. The problem is that the storms always come from the back of us so we can’t see the storms coming. Tonight’s was not fun. Tonight’s was, frankly, scary. At one point the lightning and rain and winds were […]
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Tornado alert
Sirens just went off. Neighbor said tornado spotted. According to weather reports, we’re in the path. Maybe the tornado will chase me… Update The storm hit. The alarm went off twice. The neighbors ducked into their bathrooms. But me and Zoe were brave. We faced the storm. We stood our ground, even when the lightning […]
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Ghosts in the machine
Two long time friends from this world have decided to fold up their blogs, at least for now. Possibly even permanently. The first is our friend from South Africa, Farrago. As she writes: This was fun, but the fun eventually ran out. The second is our friend from the UK, Gary Turner, who writes: What’s brought this […]
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Third major storm in four days
We just got another major thunderstorm alert–the third in four days; plus flooding and an occasional tornado warning. I’ll take pictures of any funnel clouds heading this way. Really. Honest. I’m not going to be a scaredy baby diving for shelter when I can have a chance to take a tornado picture for you all. […]