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Factual Reports
This section of the website is where I indulge my Inner Wonk: if a topic interests or affronts me enough to research it, I’ll write a paper and stash it here.
I am apt to stumble across a new Mad Enthusiasm predictably but irregularly. One of the joys of the Internet is that I can now share my Mad Enthusiasms with anyone mad enough to read about them.
These reports generally do not reflect my day-to-day job responsibilities at my University (software installation, online authentication and authorization, more general systems administration, technical conferences) and family responsibilities at home (one husband, five kids, two dogs, two hamsters, two mice, a guinea pig, and a house in suburban Southern California).
Let me know what you think.
2006
02/17 - A .pdf version of a slide presentation on website design, presented to the Conference of California Historical Societies.
02/17 - A short fact sheet on the green lynx spider, with photographs.
02/28 - A short fact sheet on the brown garden snail, with photographs.
04/15 - A short fact sheet on the fortnight lily, with photographs.
04/15 - A short fact sheet on the bottlebrush tree, with photographs.
04/20 - A short fact sheet on the bird of paradise plant, with photographs.
04/22 - A short fact sheet on the bottlebrush, with photographs.
05/04 - A short fact sheet on the carpenter bee, with photographs.
05/04 - A short fact sheet on the fork-tailed bush katydid, with photographs of a katydid nymph.
05/04 - A short fact sheet on the California flower spider, with photographs.
05/16 - A short fact sheet on the California poppy, with photographs.
05/20 - A short fact sheet on the Angel Trumpet shrub.
05/27 - A free ebook, Applying Lessons from “Why We Buy” by Paco Underhill.
06/10 - A new subsection on recipes
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Stock Photos, Royalty Free Stock Photography, Photo Search
2004
Weldon Amendment: first written for posting at Red State, this .pdf report on the Federal Refusal Clause (protecting hospitals that decline to provide abortions from losing federal funds) provides necessary background and is relevant right now (August 2005) because of an effort by Sen. Arlen Specter to cripple it.
2005
11/06 - A Photoshop CS technique for quickly generating a visually interesting background, based on a trick described in Layers magazine.
11/11 - Calvin Mooers, as described in Ambient Findability by Peter Morville.
11/30 - A Photoshop CS technique for laying out visual path across a panoramic page.
12/09 - The first in a series of articles on how to make money using your digital camera.
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