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Stuff

Moth to flame

When I was looking for a reference to something else, I accidentally stumbled on to this page. Such a pretty poem, and the background music suits, as does the use of DHTML. Note: Music will play when the page loads. And it is very sentimental. I just wanted to share this with you all because it’s […]

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Places

Bean Town

Yes, I am packing, but catching up with emails and weblog visits first. Rogi asked why Boston is called Bean Town. Well, sit down dears, I have a story to tell. In the golden old days of New England when they would burn you as a witch for working on the sabbath (or was it […]

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Just Shelley

Independent developer’s struggle

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Found this one at Scripting News also: Charles Cooper wrote on the independent developer’s struggle from being overwhelmed by the big companies such as Microsoft, SAP, and Oracle. He asks the question, “As for the remaining independents still fighting the good fight?” There has been, is, and will always be big […]

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Technology

Scripting vs Compiled languages

Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Oh this from DotNetCentric was excellent. There is no war between scripting and compiled languages — both are here to stay. What we need to do is look at how we can get the two to interoperate. Is WSDL the way? Maybe. And maybe we need to look at other approaches, […]

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Travel

Where in the world is Burningbird

Kick self in butt. Time for adventure, Orange Woman. Saturday morning, in the early hours, I am finally getting in Golden Girl and heading out on the road. Final destination: Boston, with select points in between. I figure if I’m writing, I can do this just as easily from hotel rooms in the evening, and […]