Pocahontas County Fare

This has been a very strange fall here. My roses are particularly confused this morning.

Here are some more useful links I've dug up in my search for tools to use in cataloging the Pocahontas County historic collections. In a...

All summer, this mantis (or a series of sibs) watched over the house-building process. Earlier this month, I took some pictures, then turne...

Along with selecting, installing and testing archival databases, I've been trying to learn the archivist-lingo, so that I may understand...

The roof is on, and the house wrap, doors, and windows make it look like a solid structure. We will have to look at the home improvement st...

I was very taken with the idea of MAMP: One-click solution for setting up your personal webserver . MAMP is installed in the typical Mac fas...

Sherry Chandler tagged me for the "six unspectacular things about you" meme. I actually still owe Sherry a post for the page 123...

I have a Macintosh laptop to use for work now (Woo hoo!), so I need to get more comfortable with Unix-y things on OS X. Currently, I'm l...

I picked the last cabbage from our garden for cole slaw last week. These red cabbages made small but tasty heads. It was the vivid color t...

I've been trying to teach myself PHP (among other things) for my latest joblet. Terry attests to its empowering effect, and I do get g...

Ever since I moved to Pocahontas County, people have been telling me about the old-time apple variety "Wolf River." This was once...

This is probably the last picture of the house as see-through structure. Now the roof tin will shut out the sky (especially the rain!), win...

Some modest, late season catnip blossoms, to break up my lists of computer project resources. (And I have more...much more.)

I continue to shop around, kicking the tires on content management systems for Web sites and software for digital collections libraries. I...

Here are some links and references about libraries, digital archives, and software designed to store and share collections data. There is an...

To make up for recent computational excesses, here are more photos from Seneca State Forest the last week in July. I always prefer to use n...

I'm hand-coding Web sites now, which means static (and faster loading) pages for the short term. Of course, nothing works the way I expe...

Another aspect of my recent Linux Geekfest has had me studying and trying out different "web development tools." My tool of choice...

More Linux geekery: What tools to use in planning, developing, and maintaining my own Web site and the one I'm developing for a county ...

Lest the weblog gets too Linux-geeky, here's another, different coral fungus from Seneca State Park.