Lost BoyA journal of no fixed aims or direction by Leigh Dodds. If you see him wandering, point him in the direction of home.Google AppEngine for Personal Web Presence- April 14, 2008 Some thinking aloud... I've browsed through the Google App Engine gallery and the applications you can find there at the moment are pretty much what you'd expect: lots of Web 2.0 "share this, share that" sites. These are what you'd expect because firstly they're the kind of simple application you'd build whilst exploring any new environment. Secondly because they're exactly the kind of sites that are currently being released every which way you turn. But for me App Engine is...http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000330.html Teaching a Six Year Old About Triples- April 1, 2008 I've written in the past about how both of my kids are star wars geeks thanks to Lego Star Wars. My son had a Star Wars Annual for Christmas which he's been poring over, in that obsessive way that young boys do. Anyway, we got to talking about some of the relationships between the different characters: that Luke was Anakin's son; that Anakin and Vader are the same person; etc. We went back and forth a bit as he was getting confused by some of the secret identities and the overall timeline (he's.http://www.ldodds.com/blog/archives/000329.html |