Norm's musings. Make of them what you will.

This weblog is part experimental playground, part soap box, and part pleasant diversion for me. Here you’ll find opinions, technical and otherwise, photographs, and whatever interests me when I sit down to write. If you'd like to follow along, you can subscribe to one or more of several feeds.

The short-form week of 10–16 Jun 2013, 17 Jun 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 3–9 Jun 2013, 10 Jun 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 27 May–2 Jun 2013, 03 Jun 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The joy of timezones, 30 May 2013

In XQuery
Timezones are annoying and inconvenient. And that's before legislatures get involved and start mucking about with them. Nevertheless, in the real world, sometimes you just gotta deal.

The short-form week of 20–26 May 2013, 27 May 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 13–19 May 2013, 20 May 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 6–12 May 2013, 13 May 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 29 Apr–5 May 2013, 06 May 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

Fusion Drive, 29 Apr 2013

In Laptop, OSX
Logical Volume Management on the Mac.

The short-form week of 22–28 Apr 2013, 29 Apr 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 15–21 Apr 2013, 22 Apr 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 8–14 Apr 2013, 15 Apr 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 1–7 Apr 2013, 08 Apr 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 25–31 Mar 2013, 01 Apr 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 18–24 Mar 2013, 25 Mar 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

Second ride of the year, 19 Mar 2013

In BikeRiding
Defying all odds and several Las Vegas predictions, I managed two rides in two days.

First ride of the year, 18 Mar 2013

In BikeRiding
I finally got out on the bike again.

The short-form week of 11–17 Mar 2013, 18 Mar 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 4–10 Mar 2013, 11 Mar 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 25 Feb–3 Mar 2013, 04 Mar 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 18–24 Feb 2013, 25 Feb 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 11–17 Feb 2013, 18 Feb 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 4–10 Feb 2013, 11 Feb 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

XML Calabash 1.0.8 released, 04 Feb 2013

In Calabash, Java, Programming, XML, XProc
Announcing the 1.0.8 release of XML Calabash for Saxon 9.4.

The short-form week of 28 Jan–3 Feb 2013, 04 Feb 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

The short-form week of 21–27 Jan 2013, 28 Jan 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

XML Calabash 1.0.4 released, 26 Jan 2013

In Calabash, Java, Programming, XML, XProc
Announcing a new release of XML Calabash.

The short-form week of 14–20 Jan 2013, 21 Jan 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

DocBook V5.1b8, 16 Jan 2013

In DocBook
DocBook 5.1β8 has been published.

The short-form week of 7–13 Jan 2013, 14 Jan 2013

In shortform
The week in review, 140 characters at a time.

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