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

David Grisman Interview

Jambands is featuring an interesting interview with mandolin virtuoso David Grisman. Dawg, as he is commonly called, has been making music for close to 40 years; he’s recorded numerous albums and regularly played … Read more

Martha My Dear

I guess Martha Stewart, now convicted of a relatively minor, victimless crime, has a greater appreciation for this Bob Dylan quote: Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot … Read more

Marsblog

I’ve previously written about humorous faux-blogs, including one from North Korea’s Kim Jong; now comes one of the first blogs from a galactic traveler. The featured image (which may only be displayed on … Read more

Mike at work

Traveling Light

“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” -Seneca “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” -George Harrison, Any Road … Read more

Validation Pitfalls

After a couple of hours effort last night my archive templates now all validate as either XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.1. That’s not to say all the content validates, however. The main … Read more