http://russell.dyerhouse.com The works and musings of an American fiction and technical writer living in Milan, Italy en Copyright 2008, Russell J.T. Dyer Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:41:14 UTC Wed, 24 Sep 2008 20:41:14 UTC russell@dyerhouse.com russell@dyerhouse.com http://russell.dyerhouse.com/image/misc/me_orange_small.gif http://russell.dyerhouse.com 88 42 Photograph of Russell Dyer, taken by Chad Miller. A few months ago I moved into a new apartment. I've been out of the country for most of these months, so I've been slow getting moved in and fixing up the place. Nevertheless, I've reached a point where my new home is starting to feel like a home. So, I've taken some pictures and updated my photo album which used to have photographs of my previous apartment. Click on the heading of this posting to see those photos and read my comments describing my home and workspace. <img src="http://russell.dyerhouse.com/images/notices/my_new_apartment.jpeg" height="75px" border="1" align="right"/> http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?post_id=1124 2008-10-05T23:39:16Z <p>Over the past nine months I've been slowly writing text on MySQL, building my own documentation of MySQL for this web site. Now that I've accumulated some good resources on MySQL&mdash;which includes the articles that I've written and published on MySQL in several magazines&mdash;I've decided to join them together on my web site. I've set up a new section just for <a href='/cgi-bin/mysql_resources.cgi'>MySQL Resources</a>. There's still plenty for me to do, but I think I have a good solid start. I'm hoping to get feedback from readers to not only improve these pages, but to improve my books on MySQL.</p> http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?post_id=1123 2008-09-30T17:45:14Z I've been struggling over the last few years to achieve a sense of home. Over the last few years I've been accumulating furniture and other household items to give my apartment a feeling of completeness. I think I've finally found a combination that gives me comfort to sleep by. http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/log.cgi?log_id=58 2008-09-23T14:00:25Z A New Photo Album: MySQL Developer's conference in Riga, Latvia. <img src="http://russell.dyerhouse.com/images/photographs/samples/riga_rss.jpeg" height="75px" border="1" align="right"/> http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/photo_album.cgi?album=riga 2008-09-20T06:00:00Z Living in a fifth floor apartment without air-conditioning, with windows open all summer has been trying on me with my fear of heights. Now that summer is ending and cooler days are here, I am able to close the windows&mdash;sets of windows so wide that when open one can shove easily a refrigerator through them. I'm now able to sigh in relief and consider the stress of the last few months. http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/log.cgi?log_id=57 2008-09-14T18:05:51Z Although I was told as a child that I need to share, and although I am very giving, I don't like to share. Now that I'm older and realize this, I have no problem saying that I don't like to share. http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/log.cgi?log_id=56 2008-08-10T18:17:57Z A New Photo Album: Trip to Canosa di Puglia, located in southern Italy in the region of Puglia. http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/photo_album.cgi?album=canosa 2008-07-10T06:00:00Z Finally, all parties involved have agreed and the tickets have been purchased for my daughter Marie to go to Italy. I'm in the U.S. at the moment; she will go with me when I return at the end of May. This will be her first trip to Europe. She's very excited and has been bragging to her friends about going to Italy. She wants to eat plenty of gelato, to go horseback riding, and to visit her cousin, Martina in Sicily&mdash;the one with lots of Barbie dolls. We're planning on spending about four days in Sicily, a few days in Rome, a couple of days in the northeast seeing Venice and Trieste, and a day or so in Tuscany to see Florence and mostly for horseback riding. The rest of the time we will be hanging out in Milan. We should have a fabulous time. Hopefully, it'll be a good foundation for her future as a traveler. <img src="http://russell.dyerhouse.com/images/notices/marie_grinning.jpeg" height="75px" border="1" align="right"/> http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/index.cgi?post_id=1116 2008-05-19T18:32:54Z A New Photo Album: As part of my two day tour of Tuscany, we spent an afternoon in Florence. I went with Greg Lehey and George Georgalis, but Greg went off on his own since George and I were content to take our time and walk around the Duomo mostly. http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/photo_album.cgi?album=firenze 2008-03-03T06:00:00Z My second literary review, it's about another of Graham Greene's novels, one of my favorites. It discusses a few aspects of the novel, focusing on the opening lines and the ending. Mainly, it discusses the interesting plot and includes some personal reflections related to writing. http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?article_id=118 2007-09-20T06:00:00Z This is my first literary book review for my web site. It's a review of the first Graham Greene book that I've read. It discusses the book from a writer's point of view, admiring his work and trying to learn from it. http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?article_id=117 2007-08-18T06:00:00Z Search the articles on russell.dyerhouse.com query http://russell.dyerhouse.com/cgi-bin/articles_search.cgi