Comment ... or just in time for Valentine's Day... (Score 1) 157
By the same author, The Calculus of Saying I Love You
http://www.inklingmagazine.com/articles/the-calculus-of-saying-i-love-you/
Comment Re:Recent discoveries... (Score 1) 313
I laughed when I read about this - I thought "Gee, now that slug has to do even LESS to survive - what a slug!"
Comment Re:Lenovo keyboards (Score 1) 806
I have one of those keyboards and I've never figured out how to re-map those keys since they appear to generate 2 keycodes. How do you do it?
Comment I've seen this before somewhere... (Score 2, Informative) 140
In high-school chemistry I saw a chart like this, though arranged to accommodate the rare earths as their own separate but related group. It was nerd art for me - each element was assigned a shade of blue or red to indicate pH. I ordered two and they came with additional materials explaining the new chart. The charts are packed away, but I just looked up the hand-outs and tried to Google but found nothing. But, one of the had-outs is a reprint of a write-up in Chemistry magazine of September 1976. It was created by James Franklin Hyde, who is apparently the Father of Silicones acording to Wikipedia.
Oh, here's a link I just found to the chart http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?PT_id=164
For the Internet Database of Periodic Tables, see http://www.meta-synthesis.com/webbook/35_pt/pt_database.php?Button=Spiral+Formulations
Submission + - Building a Website for Legacy
tomatoguy writes: For the last 10 years I have been collecting digital images of memorabilia of interest to me, in addition to the things I own. It started as a record of what I didn't own, because there was so much when I started collecting. Then I realized I had enough images to tell the story of the companies that inspired the things I collect, though those images.
I've done lots of database and operational planning, as I want to do this as right as I can from the start. I figured it would be something I'd be involved in for the rest of my collecting life, so no rush to bang something out and then struggle with it thereafter. I would also involve members of the interested community of likewise collectors, as an open project with qualified contributors.
Lately I've looked at a couple of the popular CMS frameworks — Joomla! and Drupal. Both would require some custom coding on my part — no big deal because they offer lots of additional handy features I wouldn't have to write. There are other maturing frameworks and methodologies that would easily do what I want.
But then I thought... How to make this site endure after I'm gone? If all goes well I'll be able to put a couple decades into it and I'm sure it would be well-appreciated by those with a collecting and historical interest in the domain, and I'm sure I could get others involved.
So my question is: What thoughts or actions have you given to preserving your web legacy, or handing it off to others, so it continues on after you can't?
I've done lots of database and operational planning, as I want to do this as right as I can from the start. I figured it would be something I'd be involved in for the rest of my collecting life, so no rush to bang something out and then struggle with it thereafter. I would also involve members of the interested community of likewise collectors, as an open project with qualified contributors.
Lately I've looked at a couple of the popular CMS frameworks — Joomla! and Drupal. Both would require some custom coding on my part — no big deal because they offer lots of additional handy features I wouldn't have to write. There are other maturing frameworks and methodologies that would easily do what I want.
But then I thought... How to make this site endure after I'm gone? If all goes well I'll be able to put a couple decades into it and I'm sure it would be well-appreciated by those with a collecting and historical interest in the domain, and I'm sure I could get others involved.
So my question is: What thoughts or actions have you given to preserving your web legacy, or handing it off to others, so it continues on after you can't?
