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About this site
This site is my personal wiki, implemented in Pm Wiki. Here I keep all kinds of things, from Books I want to read, Movies I want to see, and Music I want to listen to, to Food and Lifestyle and Health concerns, to Management and Consulting topics, to Computers, Software Development, and Internet things, as well as various collections of things I've accumulated over the years.
I apologize for the unfinished nature of this wiki. I have been slowly porting over entries from a previous wiki system and it is boring and time consuming. So bear with me!
A Wiki is like a normal web site, except that you can edit the content in your browser
- "Wiki" is short for "wiki wiki", the Hawaiian for "Quick"
- The idea originates from Macintosh Hypercard, via Ward Cunningham
- In Ward's words, Wiki is "the simplest online database that could possibly work"
- A Wiki is basically a shared, online, persistant whiteboard
- Anyone can add content or change what is written or change the organisation of the content
- Whatever you write is nicely presented, remembered, and never forgotten
Note!
This wiki is locked down to prevent spam from coming in. If you would like an account on here to edit things, please feel free to write me at my email -> mailto:tamara [snail] tamaratemple [period] com?subject=wiki%20logon%20request to request an account.
Getting around
This wiki is organized by Groups, Categories, and Tags, all of which appear in the sidebar:
- Groups -- main sections of the wiki, including Main, Recipes, SavedLinks, SavedArticles, Science, etc. I will be breaking up the Main group into more logical groups as time permits (Technology, Consulting, etc).
- Categories -- As you might surmise, Categories link together broad topic areas. Categories, like Groups, are fairly limited in number.
- Tags -- tags are a form of taxonomy that has great breadth. Tags are usually topically assigned to articles to call out subject features of the article and possible groupings with other similar pages. There are lots and lots of tags.
- Search -- in the top of the sidebar to the left is a search box. Enter anything you wish to look for in that box.
In addition, most every page has links on it that will get you around to other pages and generally navigate the wiki as you'd like.
Jumping off points:
Serious stuff:
- Community And Government -- Links to community and government sites
- Computer Stuff -- A directory of computer-related things
- including lots of stuff on Software And Web Programming -- a collection of things relating to Software Development and Web Progamming
- Consulting And Facilitating -- a collection of things on consulting and facilitating
- Management And Organization -- a collection of management and organization articles
- Philosophy And Thought -- collection point for articles and writings on philosophy and thought
- Political Stuff -- a collection page for political things
- Productivity -- A collection of things having to do with enhancing productivity and Getting Things Done
- Spirituality And Beliefs -- a collection of thoughts on spirituality and beliefs
Not-so-serious stuff:
- Comic Strips -- list of web comic strips that I like to read
- Cool Web Things -- a collection of various cool things on the web
- Critters -- A page to collect schtuff about animals, pets, critters, etc.
- Family Album -- Collection of things about the Temple and Hawkinson families.
- Foreign Phrases -- collection of useful foreign phrases
- Friends -- a collection page for things about friends
- Fun And Games -- Games and Various Fun Things To Do
- Humourous Stuff -- a collection of things I've found funny
- and Aphorisms And Sayings -- A category page to collect various Aphorisms and Truisms. Mostly for fun, but also for teaching.
- Photography Stuff -- collection of things about Photography -- one of my passions
- Travel -- travel and tourism links
- Writing Stuff -- stuff about writing
List of all pages in Main Group:
- About This Site This site is my personal wiki, implemented in Pm Wiki
- A Couple Of Papers On Testing In A Service Oriented World a couple of papers on Testing in a Service Oriented World
- A Disturbance In The Force a look at how people's thoughts can affect real-world phenomenon
- Age Activated Attention Deficit Disorder a humourous article on aging
- Ai And Robotics a collection page for things about Artificial Intelligence and Robotics
- Always Leave The Body Brace On The Same Line As The Proc This was quite a problem for me until I figured out what was wrong
- Android information about the Android OS
- Aphorisms And Sayings A category page to collect various Aphorisms and Truisms. Mostly for fun, but also for teaching.
- Apple Stuff a collection of things about Apple, the company and it's products
- Asking Smart Questions link to ESR's famous net recipe for how to ask smart questions on mailing lists and forums
- Auto Insert automatically insert text when creating a file
- A Warning About PHP Include Files Use the right file extension when naming PHP include files
- Band Of Horses Funeral Lyrics Lyrics to the Song "Funeral" by Band of Horses
- Bar Stool Economics a story explaining economics in layman's terms
- Be Modular write short, clean code
- Best Practice For Building SQL Queries A set of practices for building SQL Queries in PHP
- Bikers Creed the Biker's Creed, spoof of the Mentat's Creed, with apologies to Frank Herbert
- Bokeh Effect Emulating a bokeh effect in photoshop
- Books To Read Books I'd like to read someday
- Buddhist Metta Of Loving Kindness a prayer, or metta, for distributing loving kindness through the universe
- Caffeine Creed the Caffeine Creed, spoof of the Mentat's Creed
- Callahans All about Callahans, a mythical bar in upstate New York, and it's online incarnations
- Cast Of Characters a list of the actors involved in change management
- Change Management the art and science of affecting change in organizations in meaningful and lasting ways
- Change Screenshot Location How to have your screen captures put into a different directory than the Desktop
- Check List For Move a checklist for getting ready for a major move
- Chomping The Ends Off Of Braced Strings when args are delivered to a proc, they might be contained in braces. Here's how to deal with that
- Church Bulletin collection of items from church bulletins - love those church ladies!
- Circle Of Excellence a personal process for obtaining a state of excellence, useful for preparing one's self for a consulting gig
- Cold Fusion Application development language from Allaire->Macromedia->Adobe
- Cold Fusion Custom Tags on implementing custom tags in ColdFusion
- Cold Fusion Modularization an idea to make ColdFusion programs more maintainable
- Cold Weather Potato Chowder And Caraway Cheese
- Comic Strips list of web comic strips that I like to read
- Communication Information about Communication
- Community And Government Links to community and government sites
- Computer Stuff A directory of computer-related things
- Configuring Smarty getting Smarty working in your application
- Consulting And Facilitating a collection of things on consulting and facilitating
- Contact Info how to get in touch with me
- Cool Web Things a collection of various cool things on the web
- Crawford Kilian Links On Online Writing Style
- Critters A page to collect schtuff about animals, pets, critters, etc.
- CSS Cascading Style Sheets
- Deck Us All With Boston Charlie ♫ that famous song from the pages of Pogo, by the late, great Walt Kelly ♫
- Desired State what the client wants
- Drop Caps With CSS an old typography trick updated to the web
- Dzog Chen Dzogchen - a Buddhist vehicle for liberation
- Eclipse And SE Linux dealing with eclipse on SELinux
- Ecology definition of Ecology in systems improvement
- Emacs the kitchen sink editor that thinks it's an operating system
- Family Album Collection of things about the Temple and Hawkinson families.
- Feral Robots a neat idea about modding toy robots so they perform useful functions
- Finance Links A Collection page for links about Finances
- Finding The Mime Type Of A File sometimes it is necessary to know what type of file one is dealing with
- First Grade Proverbs the collected wisdom of first graders
- Flash and ActionScript a collection page for links about Flash
- Flax Seed Oil Breakdown a summary of the breakdown of flax seed oil
- Flexible Query Functions How to create flexible, reusable query functions
- Food Addicts information about Food Addicts In Recovery Anonymous, a 12-step program for dieters
- Food Cooking Diet And Exercise this has been redirected to Life Style
- Foreign Phrases collection of useful foreign phrases
- Frames Vs Tables discussion on the relative use of Framesets vs. Tables in layout
- Free Bsd a collection of info about the FreeBSD operating system
- Free Code various programs, scripts, snippets, etc, that I'm offering up for free
- Friends a collection page for things about friends
- Fun And Games Games and Various Fun Things To Do
- Funny Musings various funny sayings that don't necessarily make any sense
- Galactic Comparisons This is a collection of images comparing things in our solar systems and galazy. Fascinating stuff!
- Gender And Sexuality various articles on Gender and Sexuality
- Generating CSS With Stylish using a ruby gem to generate CSS
- Getting The Head Of A Web Page retrieving just the header from a web page
- Getting The Root Of Your Application In an application, it's often necessary to know where the root of the appliation exists
- Getting Things Done Notes and links on David Allen's technique
- Git information about using git, a fast version control system
- Git Submodules a way to use code from other projects easily
- Glossary A Glossary of Terms
- Google Googly Stuff!
- Google Logos fun google logos from the past
- Google Weather Api The iGoogle Weather API
- Great Example Of A Pop Up Meta Link a web programming example showing how to make a pop up link
- Great Truths Of Life a collection of great truths, somewhat humourous
- Handling Different URL Paths Between Dev And Prod A HowTo on how to handle the case when you've got a different path to your site on development and production
- Handling Redirects In PHP how to handle the building and execution of redirects in PHP
- Hipster Pda 3x5 card goodness
- Hosting Companies a listing of various web hosting companies
- How To Get Root In The Login Screen how to get root in the logon screen on the Mac
- How To Set Up For Debugging In PHP a good way to set up for debugging in PHP
- How To Set Up Your Own Private Remote Repository How to set up your own private git repository on a remote server
- How Will You Know When You Have It to establish (and help) the client's understanding of when they have arrived at the desired state
- Humourous Stuff a collection of things I've found funny
- Implementing Password Recovery Best practices for implementing password recovery from a web site
- Impure Mathematics an amusing story using math terms to mean something else entirely
- Inactivity Timeout On A Page How to implement an inactivity timeout on a web page
- Installing Smarty how to install Smarty
- Ipython description of ipython tool
- IRC Internet Relay Chat
- Irssi the nicest terminal-based IRC client evar!
- IRS Tax News a collection of things related to the IRS and Taxes
- Java Script Notes about Java Script
- Java Stuff a collection of information about Java
- Josef Hawkinson 1899 Josef is my great, great grandfather
- J Query Notes about using jQuery
- Keep A Sample Config a handy way to put config data in a repository without exposing private details
- Keep Code And Presentation Separate mixing code and presentation makes for a lot of bad code and makes it hard to maintain
- Levels Of Experience the levels of how we experience the world
- Life Style a collection page for things about Life Style topics
- Linux Stuff a collection of stuff about the Linux OS
- List Of Oink Alternatives And speaking of hunger, here's the list of OiNK alternatives.
- Lovecraft Quote As For The Republicans a quote from H.P.Lovecraft on Republicans
- Management And Organization a collection of management and organization articles
- The Mentat's Creed (or Mantra) From Frank Herbert's Dune universe
- MICE Squad my sekrit organization
- Miiishka The Mouse a page about one of my pet mice, Miishka
- Mind Mapping a productive technique for taking and making notes
- Minnasodians who are these people that live in Minnasota?
- More Information On Password Management Some more information on password management in applications
- More One Liners another collection of one liners
- More Quotations
- Mount A 500 Under Ubuntu How to mount an Acer Iconia A500 under Ubuntu 11.04
- Multi Part Forms And File Uploading
- Music some stuff on Music
- Musician Jokes I'm an avid musician and musicophile, and these are just a few of the many musician jokes I've heard
- Music To Listen To a collection of music I'd like to listen to sometime
- My Presence Elsewhere
- My Resume various forms of resumes
- My Session With Dr Phil By Joel Stein a joke told by Joel Stein about meeting with Dr. Phil
- Navigation Norms Advice for creating navigation links in web pages
- Neo Conservative Beliefs some perhaps not-so-funny thoughts on being a republican
- Nerd Jokes jokes nerdy and geeky folks like
- Nested Options In Select How to handle options if you've got a nested set of them: optgroup tag
- Networking In General About general networking aspects. OS and Network Agnostic
- NFS tips for dealing with NFS - Network File System
- Oblique Strategies originally conceived by Brian Eno and Peter Schmidt to help them break out of creativity slumps
- One Liners a collection of one-liners, jokes, aphorisms, random thoughts
- Oven Roasted Vegetables
- Page Breaking Up Is Hard To Do the why's and wherefore's of breaking up long text into multiple web pages
- Page Navigation more thoughts on how to navigate within a web page
- Page Titling more thoughts on titling pages
- Palm Stuff a collection of stuff about palm devices and the palm os
- Password Generators scripts and programs to generate strong passwords
- PC Windows Stuff a collection of information about Microsoft Windows and PCs
- Perl And UTF-8 explanation of a problem with using UTF-8 and Perl
- Perl Stuff a collection of information about Perl, the Practical Extraction and Reporting Language
- Philip Hamlin Philip Hamlin was an ancestor of mine, related to my paternal grandmother
- Philosophy And Thought collection point for articles and writings on philosophy and thought
- Photography Stuff collection of things about Photography -- one of my passions
- Photo Shop Stuff things to do with Photoshop
- PHP PHP Programming Stuff
- PHP Includes using include and it's various siblings
- PHP Magic Constants some useful constants PHP supplies
- Pithy Quotes More pithy quotes
- Political Stuff a collection page for political things
- Precision Inquiry how to get accurate information from people
- Productivity A collection of things having to do with enhancing productivity and Getting Things Done
- Public Git Repositories List of public git repositories
- Public Key information for retrieving my public key for encryption and signing
- Puns a collection of odious puns
- Python a collection of python related goodness
- Quick Action On Select how to quickly do something on a page based on a changing select value
- Ragnarok The Schedule Here's a bit of a new twist.
- Read A File Into A List Stripping Newlines code snippet for reading a file into an list stripping newlines in Python
- Rejected Dr Seuss Books unfortunate titles
- Remember To Chop Returns From Commands Trimming excess white space from command returns
- Restaurants I Can Eat At a list of restaurants I can safely eat at and maintain good nutrition on FA
- Rest Of The Questions to complete the picture of the desired state
- Rsync Backups how to effectively do rsync backups excluding and including certain files and directories
- Ruby On Rails
- Running A Single Test In Maven how to run a single instance of a test in maven, java utility
- Running Eclipse With More Memory solves a problem of eclipse always running out of memory
- Russian Vegetable Soup
- Sand Box an area to play around in
- Securing A Web Site With Apache HTTP Auth often times, one wants to keep people away from a web site for either privacy or other restrictions. HTTP Authorization is one way to do that. This page describes how to do that with Apache
- Security Discussions and Links on Security Issues in Software
- Server Side Page Generation Using server-side includes to generate common page elements
- Server Structure structure of the server hash on a public message
- Setting Environment Variables In OSX a quick HowTo to setting environment variables in OSX
- Shortening Links With Bitly using the url shortening service programmatically
- Simple HTTP Server Make a directory available via a web server
- Simple Nachos
- Sitemap Site map of wiki
- Site Navigation more thoughts on getting around web pages and useful navigation
- the Skippy List for a D&D Dwarf things you shouldn't do in a D&D game
- Sleepers History Of Series II Hacks a series of hacks one can do on a Series II Tivo
- Slow Cooker Roast Chicken
- Smarty a templating engine for a templating language
- Software And Web Development
- Software And Web Programming a collection of things relating to Software Development and Web Progamming
- Software Quality Assurance A collection of stuff on Software Quality Assurance
- Some New Page a new page
- Spirituality And Beliefs a collection of thoughts on spirituality and beliefs
- Star Wars Name how you, too, can have a uber-cool Star Wars name
- Strong Passwords Strong Passwords Policies
- Table Of Contents ways to create a table of contents for a long web page
- Tamaras Weight Loss Diet the diet I was on when I was in FA
- Tcl Tk topics on Tcl / Tk including eggdrop
- The Basic Laws Of Human Stupidity an essay on what makes humans so stupid sometimes. Public Domain content by Carlo M. Cipolla
- The Bronze Rat a shaggy dog story
- The Female Brain
- The Good Old Days a humourous look back at how things were in the 50's and 60's
- The Nocturnal Bar contact info for the Nocturnal Bar in Santa Monica
- The Temple Bar contact info for the Temple Bar in Santa Monica, CA
- The Truth About Descartes a shaggy dog story
- The World Stage contact info for The World Stage, Los Angeles
- Three Golden Questions the three most important questions in starting a precision inquiry
- Tigers Tail A Story of a Disabled Person Who Fought Back
- Tivo Hacks a list of hacks for the Tivo DVR
- Toby And Jean Wedding Salon Article Article appeared in Salon.com magazine. Toby and Jean are friends of mine.
- Todays Certainty Is Tomorrows Absurdity a collection of things taken for granted that tomorrow become completely absurd
- todo.txt-cli command line task manager
- To Switch Or Not To Switch discussion on when to use the switch control structure and alternatives
- Travel travel and tourism links
- Use Object Oriented Methods OOP is the way to write elegant, simple code
- Using Curl using the cURL PHP extension
- Using Smarty putting Smarty to work in your application
- Walk With Me As I Age a spiritual poem about aging
- Web Design Checklist A checklist for consulting with a client on a web site design
- Webdings Webdings are a common web font
- Webmonkey Shocking Secrets Revealed a collection of links to the webmonkey coding site, full of good tutorials and articles
- Web Search Tips tips and techniques for doing effective web searching
- Well Formed Outcomes attributes of well-formed outcomes, i.e., an obtainable future desired state
- What Do You Want the first golden question
- What Is Love a poem by my niece
- What Will That Get For You to find out the reasons behind what the client wants
- Why Did The Chicken Cross The Road a collection of alternate answers
- Wiki Sandbox
- Wish Lists
- Witem Structure witem structure
- wp.pl irssi script show a summary of a wikipedia entry to the current channel
- Write Functions In A Separate Include Accumulate a library of functions for reuse from project to project and enable easier testing
- Writing Stuff stuff about writing
- XML Bookmark Exchange Language discussing a way for programs to exchange bookmarks
- Yahoo Various Yahoo Links
- Ya Snippets Yet Another Snippets system for Emacs
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