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When I was a kid, I was considered “gifted.” It meant I got sent off to book-rooms to read stuff outside of the normal curriculum and that the whole group would take special field trips to interesting places.
When I graduated from high school, the “gifted” label dropped off. I was just a kid […]

In the past year I read an article about possible ways to keep IT workers from suffering burnout. The author pointed at the stigma associated with taking lower paying jobs as being a deterrant to job satisfaction and personal growth. The problem isn’t the immediate drop in wages. The difficulty arises when the job hunter […]

“Whatever course you decide upon, there is always someone to tell you that you are wrong. There are always difficulties arising which tempt you to believe your critics are right. To map out a course of action and follow it to an end requires courage.”
Ralph Waldo Emerson

Woodcut.
Originally entitled Love and Pain by the artist himself, an art critic renamed the image Vampire. Munch explored the image both in woodcuts and in oil; I have difficulties choosing one medium over the other. I love the lines in the woodcut as much as I love the treatment of the red hair in the […]

In a classic case of cart before horse, I built the thing and now I’m doing an interest survey.

So far, I have one person interested who will use it, one person interested who might use it, and one person who is interested but won’t use it. And a level-headed person who asks “What’s the advantage of a blog over a thread?”

I didn’t realize that Bryan Harvey and his family was killed at the beginning of this year. Bryan Harvey was one half of the band House of Freaks out of Richmond, Virgina.
Here are lyrics from “King of Kings” by Bryan Harvey, one of my all-time-favorite songs.

King of Kings
Blow your whistle, drive your engine
Sail me down […]

This weekend we worked on a mock-up multi-blog site for a community I’m involved in.
I’ve had on my plate to learn MySQL, CSS, PHP, and so on. A crash course in all of these is not a bad thing. No, it didn’t need to be put together in one weekend. But I just couldn’t stop […]

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Categories: from flat to foldable, but I’d prefer tags
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May be adding Sticky post capability (for maintenance posts like this one)