http://wkw.walrath.org The World According to wkw Thu, 28 Aug 2008 10:09:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Some photos from magnificient Beaver Island on Lake Winnipesaukee, New Hampshire. If you live in, or grew up in a northern region of the US where there's a healthy four-course change of seasons, you hopefully appreciate the warm months of summer as much as I do. Fresh berries and corn, the ... http://wkw.walrath.org/38/beaver-island-lake-winnipesaukee-nh/ My 20-odd-year-old dream of meeting Donald Fagen was realized last Sunday night when he and wife Libby Titus popped in for a late night dinner where I was having a drink. Today I was poking around on their web site and found this humorous note written by Walter Becker. Hey Craig: I ... http://wkw.walrath.org/36/steely-dan-the-furry-years/ I've been having fun with Google's Mapping API the last couple days. I wrote a little application for locating BlockBuster Video store locations anywhere in the US and displaying them on a Google Map. Click the map to visit the locator application. Or you can try some pre-made searches: Map Blockbuster Video ... http://wkw.walrath.org/32/blockbuster-video-locator-application/ ... or so Steve Jobs says in an email sent to employees this week. In 1997, after Jobs returned to Apple, the company he helped found in 1976, Dell's founder and chairman, Michael Dell, was asked at a technology conference what might be done to fix Apple, then deeply troubled financially. "What ... http://wkw.walrath.org/29/apple-market-value-passes-dell/ Last year (2005) when I started my first WordPress blog, I was looking for a better way to stick Google AdSense ads to the posts, and an easy way to manage where and when those ads are shown. Since nothing existed at the time, I sat down to write my ... http://wkw.walrath.org/28/wordpress-ads-plugin-adsense-deluxe/ It seems that everytime I start trying to satisfy some curiosity of mine -- like learning about electric food smokers -- About.com pages come up high in the search results. But I can't stand that site! Maybe I've never given them a fair chance, but my intial reaction is always ... http://wkw.walrath.org/22/about-dot-com-is-annoying-dot-com/