About a month ago, long-time friend Deirdré (@DeirdreS on Twitter) suggested I try Sun Microsystems’ VirtualBox application, after I’d complained about the necessity to buy yet another copy of Parallels to put on my home webserver. Since it’s opensource software, and I’m a fan of Sun anyway (having used Solaris when I worked at Cadence [...]

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I’ve been delving into the underpinnings of several web technologies lately, including one that’s been added to this site. If you scroll down below the Google ads in the right sidebar on this page, you will now find “Kat’s Tweets” — the last 5 posts I’ve made to my Twitter account. That took a bit [...]

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No, the University of Missouri (“Mizzou”) really doesn’t have anything to do with hydrogen peroxide, but when I phoned my parents just now to tell them I’ve been accepted into the graduate program there (in the School of Journalism), Dad said they were already celebrating another milestone. It seems he (on behalf of a client) [...]

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