For a few years I’ve been collecting my personal and family recipes on a site called TheGourmetMoose. As a user of WordPress for years, I naturally turned to that platform when I initially built the site, but it soon showed its limitations. Last year I decided to look for a different platform.
This adorable cactus was a gift from a colleague in appreciation for my work on a complex web development project. She had no idea that Rebutias are some of my favorite cactuses and yet I have only one other cactus from the genus. Our guess is that it is Rebutia fulviseta, based on the flowers, the shape of the body of the plant, and its dark-green-to-violet skin. But I welcome corrections!
I’ve been using XAMPP for local development on a Windows machine, but I wanted to store some projects in folders other than the default htdocs folder. After some research and trial and error, I came up with the following procedure.
The library’s Journal Search pages (and the related Citation Linker) were badly in need of an update. From their appearance, I’d estimate that they were designed in the early 2000s (and I’m being generous). Part of the reluctance to update the styles was due to the fact that, for some reason, changes to the Serials Solutions platform only go live once a day. There is no way to make a change and test it, and then iterate until you get what you want. (So in a way it prevents cowboy coding, but because there is no test server or development environment, and you’re modifying an existing system with existing styles that need to be overriden, there’s also no good way to make a reliable mockup.)
Postcards are curated vignettes of our past, often idealized views of places from a time when it appears people could wander more freely. But if you keep your eyes open and do some research, you’ll find that many of these places are still yours to explore.
No, this is not the red-headed Irishman again. It’s our Thanksgiving cactus (Schlumbergera truncata) blooming again in March.
Izzy is our reliable Parodia magnifica. He’s one of the first cacti we bought, and my early cultivation mistakes show in the tough corking near Izzy’s base. Over the winter, shrunken in dormancy, he looked anything but “magnifica.” But the new growth he has put on since May is nice and plump and green, and Izzy thrilled us today with this delicate lemon-yellow blossom. The best part? The sweet fragrance of the flower! And there’s a second bud waiting in the wings.
