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{ Yearly Archives } 2005

Dublin Liberty

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Liberty sponsor meeting in Dublin, a couple of weeks ago. I’ve been to Dublin before, in October/November 2003, to assist in the Reach PSB Phase 1 procurement, and I like the city, so I was glad to get back again, even if it was [...]

New XML Conference Site

Up till now, the XML Conference web sites have been HTML-based with no content management features. For this year, we decided to take the plunge, so we can more easily add features such as RSS feeds, collaborative pages, and news aggregation from sponsors, exhibitors, and speakers.
With help from Boris Mann we have a Drupal-based [...]

Enabling Thumbnails

A few pitfalls on the way to enabling the thumbnail functionality in WordPress.

Inspiration 5443

My first post about knitting - item 5443 from Inspiration 75 (and no, I guess they couldn’t come up with a better name for it).

Favourite Recipe Book

A review of my current favourite recipe book, Deborah Madison’s “Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone”.

Jerzy Kosinski’s “Being There”

Jerzy Kosinski’s Being There was a reasonably popular bookclub book, at least in part because it’s short and thus most people could read it in full (and some even read it twice!). Several of us had also seen the film (screenplay also by Jerzy Kosinski). Reactions to the book at bookclub varied, from those who [...]