Three and a half years ago I needed a poem. Why I needed the poem is a story for another time. Short story: the poem made more of an impression on me than the woman for whom I needed it.
The poet is Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, and the poem is as follows:
Someday after mastering winds, [...]
Browsing through backarticles of Becoming a Writer Seriously, I ran across a Youtube director codenamed leelefever. After watching his RSS in Plain English, I noticed he has a great video about wikis. Following up my previous post, here’s Wikis in Plain English for those who are still wiki curious.
Current Homepage: http://jhorman.org/wikidPad/
Created by: Jason Horman
Current project lead: Michael Butscher
Abstract
wikidPad is a desktop wiki. Wikis provide a way to organize and link disparate data into cohesive webs of information. wikidPad picks up the organizational baton where notebooks, index cards, word processing documents, and spreadsheets leave off, yet only requires the user learn a [...]
Amazing and inspiring. If you haven’t seen it yet, it’s worth the 3.5 minutes.
For years I’ve been using and exploring free alternatives to commercial software. The search started out as a pseudo-necessity in college: I wanted good programs on a college budget. My college years started in 1994 and ended in 1998. During that time I watched open source software groups seed themselves and develop into micro-communities. The [...]
In the past I’ve been running my main blog subscription feed through FeedBurner. I’m moving away from using FeedBurner as my feed aggregator.
What does this mean to you? It should mean absolutely nothing at all. Yay!
For those who like to “trust but verify,” how will you know? If you don’t get a blog update within [...]
Yay! I love not having to create my own themes. Special thanks to the Wordpress team for their efforts on their new version 2.3 software, and to Justin Tadlock for his nice and clean Blogging Simply theme. It’s so nice not to have to design my own themes, leave me to writing a [...]
Most of you won’t notice a thing, but just in case you run into something bizarre, know that I’m overhauling this site, internals and organization first.
That’s right, not one of my imaginary friends, but a REAL FRIEND! Amy Obenski hits the prime time tonight on the show Grey’s Anatomy. She told me her song, Carousel, gets air time on television. I think that’s incredibly, totally cool, and I’m envious. She’s a great artist, and it’s exciting having watched her follow [...]
It’s that time. And I still owe posts about my adventure in the open-source software world, but that will wait for a bit. Stay tuned.