All the Pages Are My Days - the first 12 years
the (archived) online world of Mike Rodriquez 2002-2012
So far I’ve been pretty successful in meeting one of my goals for 2004: learning to bake yeast breads and rolls. Many of the successful recipes have been posted here and I have been been baking 2 out of every 3 weeks on average. I hadn’t tried anything new recently, instead cycling between flatbreads, rolls … Read more
An original recipe; somewhat related to Bow-Tie Chicken. One of those, “what can I make with ingredients on hand?”, concoctions that I’m fond of creating. Ingredients 12 oz penne pasta 2-3 boneless, skinless chicken breasts 1/2 lb fresh asparagus 1 med carrot 1 celery stalk 1/2 med onion 2 cloves garlic 2 Tbs extra virgin … Read more
I can’t believe I’ve used various unix systems for 20 years and have only now, via kuro5hin, discovered the joys of the powerful utility known as screen. Screen provides the ability to run multiple terminal based applications, including connecting to remote systems, within one terminal window. More than that, the utility provides the ability to … Read more
Former colleague, and well known author and educator Dave Taylor has put together a site that should be useful to all authors. The site performs a number of standard readability tests, including the fairly well known Kincaid and Flesh forumulas, against a submitted URL or Word document. The results allow authors to quickly evaluate if … Read more
Jambands is featuring an interesting interview with mandolin virtuoso David Grisman. Dawg, as he is commonly called, has been making music for close to 40 years; he’s recorded numerous albums and regularly played live concerts. During the early 90s he and Jerry Garcia shared a special musical and personal relationship as they spent many hours … Read more
I guess Martha Stewart, now convicted of a relatively minor, victimless crime, has a greater appreciation for this Bob Dylan quote: Steal a little and they throw you in jail, steal a lot and they make you king. Here’s some good advice, from the Beatles song that shares a title with this posting: Hold your … Read more
I’ve previously written about humorous faux-blogs, including one from North Korea’s Kim Jong; now comes one of the first blogs from a galactic traveler.
“If one does not know to which port one is sailing, no wind is favorable.” -Seneca “If you don’t know where you’re going, any road will take you there.” -George Harrison, Any Road Interesting, thought-provoking perspectives on two very different approaches to life. BTW, I haven’t heard the whole album, but Any Road, one of … Read more
After a couple of hours effort last night my archive templates now all validate as either XHTML 1.0 strict or XHTML 1.1. That’s not to say all the content validates, however. The main page, permalinks and monthly archives created after 1 March 2004 should validate. Category archives mostly don’t validate, as they have older, non-valid … Read more
