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It looks like the Collegian now has someone on staff who believes in updating the website. This is goodness and light. I only wish they’d post all the articles, rather than just 2 or 3 of them....

https://drbacchus.com/collegian/

Last night we finished reading The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane. Dicamillo, once again, is simply amazing. Although the style is simple enough for kids, the character is believable, and th...

https://drbacchus.com/edward-tulane/

I’m about 100 versions back on the Habari code, since I’ve been rather too busy lately to update and reimport to the new database schema. So I imagine that this won’t do the desired thing. ...

https://drbacchus.com/the-bear-by-robert-frost/

I have been listening a lot lately to Jonathan Coulton, and have been delighted with most of his stuff. It’s fascinating how, when one dispenses with such things as tact, one can have fascinati...

https://drbacchus.com/how-did-that-get-there/

The time has come again. Tomorrow night I’ll be doing my third annual performance of “A Christmas Carol in Prose, Being a Ghost Story of Christmas”, by Charles Dickens. It takes about 3 hou...

https://drbacchus.com/marley-was-dead-2/

Today we crossed 300 people in the #apache IRC channel on Freenode. I remember when we crossed 100, and bemoaned the changes in the nature of the conversation. And, now that we’re at 300, the f...

https://drbacchus.com/300/

I just got done listening to the WordPress podcast, and I’m very impressed both with the quality of the production, and the quality of the commentary. That two guys can natter on for an hour, a...

https://drbacchus.com/wordpress-podcast-and-measuring-success/

I’ve been reading The Dilbert Blog for several months now. Today, I have finally removed it from my aggregator. I’d just had enough. Some of the time, it’s very funny. Most of the time, it�...

https://drbacchus.com/dilbert-and-his-creator/

https://drbacchus.com/peachtree-westin-atlanta/

We’re just about ready to get started on the ApacheCon planning for ApacheCon EU 2007 in Amsterdam. We’re in the Peachtree Westin, downtown Atlanta. Not everyone has showed up yet for the 9am...

https://drbacchus.com/apachecon-planners-meeting-2/