About All the Pages

Ever since Ken referred to me as Mike NLI (no last initial), I’ve been aware that this site needed an About page. And so, now it has one: About All the Pages. It’s … Read more

San Diego and Seattle Trips

The blog format, with articles appearing in reverse date order so that the newest postings are displayed first, works rather well … for blogs themselves. On the other hand, if someone is trying … Read more

All the Pages: New Home!

This is the first entry I’m making to this site in its new location. I’ve been feverishly testing and reviewing the site, including checking links and setting up redirects from the old site, … Read more

Eclipse 2017 Just Before Totality

CSS Media Types

In the “sharp knives may be dangerous in unskilled hands” category comes this lesson. I had, as part of the process of converting the site to validate against W3C standards, changed the method … Read more

Prairie Spirit Trail

Zork 2004

The games haven’t changed since the 1980’s, but the delivery mechanism is pure 21st century. Zork, (and Zork II & III) are now playable using an AIM compatible client. In addition, many other … Read more

Aiko in a chair

Classic Tool: Screen

I can’t believe I’ve used various unix systems for 20 years and have only now, via kuro5hin, discovered the joys of the powerful utility known as screen. Screen provides the ability to run … Read more

Do You Know What I Mean?

Former colleague, and well known author and educator Dave Taylor has put together a site that should be useful to all authors. The site performs a number of standard readability tests, including the … Read more