The following nascent code adds Dublin Core metadata to my site. It is based on my (also nascent) understanding of the Dublin Core specification. My site is a single-author site, so fields such as "creator" are set to one name only. This code does not support multiple-author sites.

On pages 181-182 of The Atoms of Language, author/linguist Mark C. Baker describes a feature of Japanese that is absent in English. English is a subject-prominent language. Its sentences are normally composed of a subject, a verb and frequently an object. In comparison, Japanese, a topic-prominent language, usually employs a noun phrase, clearly marked as the topic with the word “wa”, followed by a sentence incorporating this topic. Other topic-prominent languages include Vietnamese, Korean, Hungarian and (surprisingly) Singapore English.

I wanted to learn Python, primarily to replace my Bash scripts with Python code.

Rather than just read a bunch of tutorials and books, I decided to try applying the mind map technique to learning a programing language.

I'm very pleased with the technique's ability to help me learn a new language, and I'm providing a draft of my mind map, in the hopes it will help others learn Python.

I was writing a piece about a sommelier when I came across a dilemma: Which, if any, of the names of wine should be capitalized? Should I capitalize appellations in honor of their geographic origins? Should varietals be lowercase? We don’t capitalize the names of trees, why should a product made from grapes be different? Maybe all should be lowercased?