BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave is still talking about web versus C programming language. He mentions that scripting is what holds the web together. Dave, someone has to write the base. You can’t create full applications with Javascript, without something taking the script and translating it into machine understandable bits. And that translation is accomplished through programming […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine, orange color and all. I like my new weblog color. Orange. Burnt orange to be exact. Bitter-sweet. The color suits because I’ve found weblogging to be both bitter as well as sweet, luckily more of the latter than the former. But you can’t taste the sweet without the bitter, and […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Dave is referencing his Full Peer again. I like the concept of peers being able to link and serve as each other’s cloud. To me this is true distributed computing. However, a “peer” that’s guaranteed to be up 24 hours a day isn’t a true peer — it becomes a server. […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. I finally found the kernel of the writer’s block I’ve had, as well as much of my restlessness in the last month — it was the end of year tax filings. Really, you would have laughed if you had seen me. I literally couldn’t approach the table with all my […]
Recovered from the Wayback Machine. Jonathon likes the weather he experienced in Portland Oregon. I lived in Portland for four years, and in Seattle for nine years — after a time the drizzle and overcast can get a bit wearying, especially if you live in the city. Out of the city, though. That’s where the mist […]