Monthly Archives: July 2010

the road !taken 2

This site is run by software called WordPress.  Wordpress is “open source”, which means that anyone is free to go to WordPress.org, download the software, and take a look at the innards to see how they tick, which may or may not render the software completely inoperable and the tinkerer utterly despondent after doubting his own intelligence and wondering […]

laryngitis 6

Near the end of his life, William Faulker served as the writer-in-residence at the University of Virginia. This appears to have meant that the University of Virginia needed good press and that William Faulker needed drinking money. However the arrangement, it resulted in Faulkner giving a series of talks in conjunction with the University. Some […]