Author Archives: Beecher

Oooohhh, The first one is the first one; The second one is some more. The third one is number three, And after that comes four!

Good ol’ Defective Yeti, like a modern-day Dave Barry with some scripting skills, has caused me to compose this, from the browser on my computer at work: These are my URL ABCs: A is for antwrp.gsfc.nasa.gov/apod – The Astronomy Picture … Continue reading →

Has this weblog ceased to be read by human beings? If so, I can hardly blame them — they should follow the spoor of the more interesting instead. But for this weblog’s most loyal reader, Googlebot, I have a message: … Continue reading →

So this guy I know, Alan Williams, has a little consulting company that does web application development for companies from time to time. And he mentioned that he had put some tech notes for his fellow programmers, whereever they may … Continue reading →

Game night, 8/11/04: Cranium around the dining room table.Clockwise from lower left: Bahiyyih, Kathy and Polly (our neighbors), Husayn, Kathleen, Liz and Nate.

So, a few months ago, Bahiyyih asked me if we could set up a web log “Like Husayn’s“. We had a languishing computer in a cabinet in the basement that we occasionally backed up our files to, that had once … Continue reading →

Funny quote of the day from Linus Torvalds, the father of Linux: People do really strange things, and they think they’re normal people, but they’re not! (Laughs). From an interview in Australia (down near the very bottom of the story).

Let’s try this again (the first time I tried it, I got a 3MP image right in the page – a little too big). Hey, it’s Scott, Debbie, and Luella Martin, at Heartland Baha’i Winter School in Springfield, Illinois.