cehwiedel: Opinion, Analysis, Humor,
Satire, Mystery, Fantasy & Facts
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.
06/10 - A new subsection on recipes
By Date
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.
11/30 - 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.
