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13 Jul 2018

So. I’m starting over.

This weblog⊕ is my space to ramble on in bursts longer than 140 characters. The opinions are my own^†. If you’d like to follow along, you can subscribe to one or more of several feeds. Or just click the links below, that works too. So does searching.

Recent microblogs

13 Jul 2018 at 04:33 UTC

Anyone know if the keyboard on the new MacBook Pro models is improved over the current train wreck? Asking for, uh, "a friend".

13 Jul 2018 at 00:28 UTC

Coding is great fun. Big code base. Mostly works (for some values of mostly). Encounter bug. Find bug. Analyze bug. Marvel at bug so fundamental you can't understand how the code passes any tests. Fix bug. Repeat.

12 Jul 2018 at 02:00 UTC

Inspired by The Pool Lounge is absinthe muddled with cucumber, fresh lime juice, and a little agave nectar. Not too shabby.

Recent posts

Speed awareness, 09 Jul 2018
In Activities, Interests, Travel, Driving: I was going how fast, officer?
XML Resolver, 07 Jul 2018
In XML, XML Resolver: Is a 1.0.0 release on the horizon?
sshtunnel, 27 May 2018
In Python, Linux, Ubuntu: A simple script for managing ssh tunnels.
New phone, 24 May 2018
In iPhone: Putting the “i” back in my mobile phone.
Car (A)UX fail, 23 May 2018 (updated 24 May 2018)
In Activities, Interests, Travel, Automobiles, Technology: ♪ Riding along in my automobile... ♫
Ubuntu anti-climax, 17 May 2018
In Ubuntu: TL;DR: no, it doesn’t really work all that well.
Ubuntu denouement, 14 May 2018
In Ubuntu: TL;DR: it works now, for no specifically identifiable reason..
Watering the plants, 02 May 2018
In RaspberryPi: Notes about watering the plants with a Raspberry Pi.
Continuing adventures in Ubuntu, 01 May 2018
In Ubuntu: Turns out the problem had nothing to do with Ubuntu 18.04. Unfortunately, I’m still having issues, but they’re more of the expected sort.
Adventures in Ubuntu, 27 Apr 2018
In Ubuntu: So far, Ubuntu 18.04 is a fail on my laptop.
Tee Vee, 11 Mar 2018
In Home Reno, Entertainment, Television, Roku, NetFlix, Amazon Prime, RaspberryPi, iPad: When I moved to Austin, I didn’t bring a television. And, honestly, I’ve never missed it, but after five years, I’ve succumbed to the lure of the televisual feast.
One more thing…, 10 Mar 2018
In XML, XProc, XSLT, DocBook: A few notes about using the DocBook stylesheets without Gradle and on catalogs in jar files.
Make it easy to use, 05 Mar 2018 (updated 10 Mar 2018)
In Gradle, Groovy, XML, XSLT, DocBook: Very few things are easy to use in absolute terms, but relative improvements can have value as well. Relatively speaking, I think I’ve made processing DocBook documents easier.
XForms, 20 Feb 2018 (updated 10 Mar 2018)
In XML, XForms: A casual exploration of XForms with a little help from my friends.
Fit for a Maharaja, 04 Feb 2018
In Food, Events: A short post about an annual charity event, Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner.
Publishing photographs, 31 Jan 2018
In Activities, Interests, Photography, Self Reference: A story of duct tape, bailing wire, chewing gum, string, rubber bands, superglue, twist ties, blu tack, and assorted other odds and ends.
XML Calabash & Saxon 9.8, 25 Jan 2018
In XProc: Making XML Calabash (1.1!) work with Saxon 9.8.
Not ready for me, 23 Jan 2018
In Reviews: My attempt to upgrade to Ubuntu 17.10.1 did not go well.
Your seat cushion is floatable, 14 Jan 2018
In Activities, Interests, Travel: So, I listen to passenger safety announcements on airplanes.
Still digging, 02 Jan 2018
In Self Reference: Escaping from walled gardens will require investing time and energy in cultivating gardens of our own. I’m still doing a little digging.
Micro.blog, 27 Dec 2017
In Self Reference: Trying to escape from walled gardens to get back the web we wanted.
½, 27 Nov 2017
In Self Reference: Half my life.
Vibration detection, 18 Nov 2017 (updated 04 Feb 2018)
In RaspberryPi: My first “hardware” project in a long time combines a sensor and a Raspberry Pi and a web service. As one does.
Random musings on non-XML pipelines, 31 Oct 2017
In XProc: More than 140 (or even 280) characters about pipelines in text or graphs.
R.I.P. microwave, 10 Jul 2017
In Self Reference, Technology, Linux: Eight years is probably a pretty good run for a bit of commodity hardware.
My worst typo, 02 Jul 2017
In Activities, Interests, Programming: D’oh!
Amazing, 20 Jun 2017
In Activities, Interests, Programming: Maze drawing algorithms are really neat.
I’m Irish, 15 Jun 2017 (updated 16 Jun 2017)
In Irish: It didn’t take sixteen months, but it did require a bit of genealogical digging. The official notification has arrived, I am Irish.
“Lucy”, 15 Jun 2017
In Activities, Interests, Music: And now for something completely different. <Cue the organ music.>
Namespaces in JSON?, 24 May 2017
In JSON: More than 140 characters about property names in JSON.

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^†I work for MarkLogic Corporation, but the opinions expressed here are my own, and no other party necessarily agrees with them. A full disclosure of my professional interests can be found on the author page.