Happy 40th birthday Deana!
Sigh.
Posted by Deana in Holiday! Celebrate! on October 9th, 2009 | 3 Comments »
tomayto tomahto
I often see a word in print long before I hear it pronounced. That’s fine for most words—”antidisestablishmentarianism” isn’t actually that hard to deconstruct—but it can get me in trouble sometimes. For years I thought misled was pronounced “mizzled”, and I never did decide how envelope should sound. Now that’s going to be a lot [...]
Posted by Chris in Language, Technology, Web 2.0 on October 6th, 2009 | Comments Off
Night work
Napa Valley Register did a write up about what’s been keeping me busy for the last month or so: Harvest Nights (This is why I drop off the face of the planet for half of August and the months of September and October.)
Posted by Deb in Agriculture on September 27th, 2009 | Comments Off
it’s not what you expect
In 1998, Apple came out with an all-in-one computer. At the time, all-in-one computers were stripped down CPUs crammed onto a monitor case. The term made people expect something ugly, cheap, and difficult to upgrade. What they got instead was the iMac. It was revolutionary, and it inspired copies all across the industry. In 2001, [...]
Posted by Chris in Technology on September 3rd, 2009 | 1 Comment »
keeping the ‘perma’ in permalink
While doing regular WordPress maintenance today, I finally bit the bullet and changed the post permalinks to something a bit more human-friendly. For example, the old and new URLs for a recent post are: http://globalspin.com/2009/05/22/1531/ http://globalspin.com/2009/05/livable-streets/ A bit nicer, right? Here’s the tricky part: the old URL still works, redirecting automatically so no one need [...]
Posted by Chris in Blog, Technology on August 5th, 2009 | Comments Off
