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It’s Only Obvious To You

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 9th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

A couple of years ago I published a quick how-to on passing a stupid limitation on a medically related website. Documenting it in the blog post took way longer than solving the problem. I threw up the blog post thinking one or two other people might find it interesting. Instead …



A Song For A New Day by Sarah Pinkser

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Feb 3rd, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

A Song For A New Day

I love live music, and this book is a coming of age story centered around the underground music scene in a dystopian near future that seems all too possible.

My biggest issue with this book is the classification of science fiction. The science and technology in the book center around …



Uncanny Valley by Anna Wiener

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 26th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Uncanny Valley book cover

Uncanny Valley is Anna Wiener’s memoir of her mid to late 20s working in salt mines of Silicon Valley. At 25, she was an under employed assistant in the declining publishing industry in NYC. She joined a publishing related start up in NY as employee #5, and then got …



I Read A Book in One Sitting

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 24th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Yesterday I got to ride Amtrak for almost 5 hours going North, get off the train, give a 45 minute sales presentation, then get back on the train and go home. Not the most productive use of my time, for sure. On the way North I was working. It turns …



New book page

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 22nd, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

If you look in the left column you’ll see a new link to 2020 Books. Posting book reviews allows me to feel like I wrote something, without really writing. I’ll still post book reviews when I read something particularly interesting, but otherwise I’ll put the reviews on the review page …



The Body by Bill Bryson

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 19th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

The Body book cover

In The Body, Bryson does for human biology what he did for science in A Short History of Everything. In about 400 pages he attempts to provide a college 101 level understanding of pretty much everything you might want to know about your body. He mostly succeeds, although given the …



My first professional site

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 13th, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Earlier this week a long time Internet friend posted that she had found her old Hypermart site. Hypermart was “Geocities for businesses.” I knew the three founders from my first Internet job. They started the site with one server and in less than a year (IIRC) they had sold it …



I like Charleston

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Jan 1st, 2020 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Selfie in Charleston

We got a head start on our planned 2020 tour of beachy areas we might move to in 2021 by spending a few days of Christmas break in Charleston SC – the first trip there for either of us. Won’t be the last trip there for sure, and Charleston has …



Happy Holidays 2019

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 24th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or if you aren’t celebrating anything in particular this week, happy Tuesday! BTW, this is blog post 54 for the year, so I averaged an update a week, and I didn’t need a “post everyday in December” stunt this year to do it!

We aren’t camping …



Happy Holidays 2019

By From https://odonnellweb.com/pelican/ • Dec 24th, 2019 • Category: Blog Entries.Local

Happy Holidays

Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukkah, or if you aren’t celebrating anything in particular this week, happy Tuesday! BTW, this is blog post 54 for the year, so I averaged an update a week, and I didn’t need a “post everyday in December” stunt this year to do it!

We aren’t camping …