Author Archives: lara

I’ve been work­ing on mov­ing a bunch of our old fam­i­ly web­site (Black Dog Farm) to a new serv­er (Blackdog and Magpie.) It’s not the pret­ti­est web­site you’ll ever see but it serves well as a sand­box. At the moment I“m work­ing on build­ing a new set of weath­er report­ing pages. We have a fairly … 

Continue read­ing “How’s the Weather Out There?”

I find the con­cept of man­aged knowl­edge to be sort of like steam­punk. How the world would be if we had been able to hang onto some cher­ish anachro­nism.  So why do I do it?

Last week I had one of those days. There was noth­ing urgent on deck. Not that there’s not a lot of stuff hang­ing around. It’s just that I was stuck wait­ing for a lot of things that I don’t con­trol. So rather then bang my head against a lot of stalled projects I took the … 

Continue read­ing “Exploring Day”

I’ve been work­ing on mov­ing my hus­band’s weath­er data pages from our old host­ing sys­tem to our new host­ing sys­tem. As part of the new look I’m adding links to some of the sources of weath­er infor­ma­tion that he uses reg­u­lar­ly. One of these is the NOAA local fore­cast page. A few days after he … 

Continue read­ing “Human Readable URL’s a ?Practical? Example”

As I get busier I find that my dai­ly blog/news/web read­ing habits change. What used to be a leisure­ly hour or so now gets squeezed into 20 or 30 min­utes.  What falls out and what stays makes for a kind of embar­rass­ing list. I read the fun­nies. Nine Chickweed Lane, Hello Kitty Hell, ICHC, and xkcd. … 

Continue read­ing “Daily Reading Habits”