In her 2003 book, “Eats, Shoots & Leaves“, Lynn Truss points out the problems of a lack of punctuation or too much punctuation in terms of meaning and how the reader parses the words. If one is a panda bear: one eats shoots &…
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Construction Continues…
Tues. 05.19.20 – Construction continues around here. Or to keep up with yesterday’s metaphor, our 17 year old blog has decided on an outfit (Miniva) and then decided she was going to mix and match her colors and makeup into a form she liked…
Please Excuse the House Cleaning Around Here…
Mon. 05.18.20 – This blog recently celebrated its 17th birthday. Wahoo! And like all good 17 year olds, it has been experimenting with new looks and make-up in the form of trying on some new templates and apply some new css and php. Smile…
How the Foursquare Pivot to Swarm Has Decreased my Mobile Usage, or Goodbye Foursquare – I loved You…
Over the summer, Foursquare pivoted from a fun, game based location mobile app to a location based restaurant review app with the aim to compete with Yelp. To throw a bone to loyal users who loved checking in, they created a second location based…
Net Neutrality Explained Brilliantly by John Oliver
Net Neutrality explained brilliantly by John Oliver on his new show, Last Week Tonight. Watch the video to both laugh and be educated on a very important issue. Great quotes from the video, plus a wee bit of commentary from me: “Maybe, Maybe it…
Well… That was nice… Not really.
Thurs 01.09.14 – Sorry about the radio silence from blackphoebe.com in the last 24+ hours, but I am trying to set up a separate portfolio site on a sub-domain and instead got a full meltdown of the whole domain. Oops. And it took many…
Testing the Changes to Comments
Test… Test… Test…. Trying to give folks more options: Comments: Is the comments from the last ten years. Disqus Comments: Is the new comments using Disqus, Google or Facebook to login bits.
Javascript, I am just not that in to you
I like Javascript enough to work with it, write in it, and meet up for coffee/tea to hear how its life is going. But I don’t want to move in with it and have its babies. I realize that in contemporary web development I…