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28 Sep 2017

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 posts

R.I.P. microwave, 10 Jul 2017
In Self Reference, Technology: 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.
You can talk to me, 05 May 2017
In Self Reference: It was a 1.0 software release. I knew something wasn't going to work. It was comments.
So. There., 03 May 2017
In Balisage 2017, MarkLogic World 2017, XML London 2017, Self Reference, XProc: Disengage the cloaking device. Publish the links. Let’s go live with this thing!
Not Evernote, 08 Mar 2017
In Self Reference, Technology: It’s really useful to have a place to store all the electronic bits and bobs that cross your desk. Useful enough, in my case at least, to roll my own.
I’m British, 07 Mar 2017
In Nationality, British: It took 16 months (and nearly fifty years), but on Friday I became British.
Design notes, 01 Mar 2017
In Self Reference: A few notes on the design of So…
README, 01 Mar 2017 (updated 24 May 2017)
In Self Reference: A quick bit of documentation for my markup conventions.
Phoning it in, 01 Mar 2017
In Self Reference: Easier authoring is one of the advantages of this new weblog.
How?, 01 Mar 2017 (updated 05 May 2017)
In Self Reference: You did what now?
Hello, World, 01 Mar 2017
In Self Reference: The canonical starting place.

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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.