Japanese whale researchers recently discovered a new species of baleen whale, which they have named Balaenoptera omurai. It’s not unusual to discover new species of animals, but not ones this large – about 12 meters long. Big as a bus, in other words. This is going to impact on whale hunting, as it should. What may have been a larger population […]
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Wanna chocolate?
Many thanks for the kind words about my birthday. My roommate took me out for an Italian dinner that would violate every aspect of an Atkins diet. We had bruschetta for an appetizer, home made garlic breadsticks with the dinner, which happened to be chicken, artichoke, sun dried tomato, and shitake mushroom sauteed in garlic […]
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PostCon – generating RDF/XML files
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Now that the Burningbird Network sites are getting back into the groove, time to bring this weblog back online. I’ve incorporated bits and pieces of the PostCon throughout this system. However, none of the implementations are a blinding flash or a deafening roar. And I’m not picking a fight with […]
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A song on my 49th birthday
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I turned 49 today. Or, more precisely, I turned 49 this morning at 7:02am. I’ve reached the age where I’ve lived too long to die and leave a beautiful corpse. The the only other option open to me now is to live long enough to become a burden on society. […]
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Neighborhoods
Last night a massive late fall storm hit our area, causing flooding and even generating funnel clouds not far from where we live. Today the trees are stripped bare for the most part, leaves littering the ground like summer’s last soldiers felled honorably on the field of battle. Except for one tree. One tree on […]