Baratariana

In the two years I’ve been writing Barataria, I’ve taken one sick day and one vacation day off from a MWF schedule.  I’m proud of that record, but with my parents in town and a potential new business opportunity starting to fill my thoughts there wasn’t much room left for a piece today.  So I’ve decided to do a clip show – a few highlights of pieces from Barataria past that seem to be popular.  I hope you enjoy them!

Cooking

The pan is hot.  A thin film of oil pours out of the bottle and rolls in the heat.  A thin whiff of burning rolls up just in time to meet the cold chicken, dropped in with an angry splash of hot oil and a deafening roar of violence.  A quick stir and it all settles in, gradually turning white as the chopped garlic starts to shove its pointed edges between the slices of meat.

Breaking the Code

It’s been one of those days. I started the process of moving this humble blog over to WordPress late in the day, when the topic came up naturally for a friend. Why WordPress? Because it’s reasonably good looking, has nice features, and is in my price range (free). But to get things going, I thought it would be nice to move all of this junk, er, all these posts over to start ‘er out with some stuff. And there’s enough of them I’d like to automate it, yes?

I’ll Have it Bronzed

Its time for the Olympics, the two weeks when the whole world gets together in the spirit of athletic competition. Right?

Yeah, right.

Citizen Journalism

Citizen Journalism is a hot topic, and for a good reason. If the internet is going to live up to its promise of connecting people, the methods and tools for reporting on our lives have to be distributed to the people. That’s Jay Rosen of NYU’s definition of Citizen Journalism