Author Archives: lara

from the shop man­u­al for my truck: slack­en vent flap trun­nion fix­ing fabulous!

Better Explained is a web site cre­at­ed by Kalid Azad based on the idea that  There’s always a bet­ter way to explain a top­ic. Insights are flu­id, muta­ble, and work for dif­fer­ent peo­ple.  He focus­es on math and pro­gram­ming (web tech­nolo­gies) with a lit­tle bit of the kitchen sink thrown in. His abil­i­ty to use a … 

Continue read­ing “Better Explained — This is what the web can be.”

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”