Here, There, and Everywhere

Here, there, and where are a wonderful trio of words, and they, along with some of their rather less familiar cousins, form some of the coolest parallel structures in the English language. These words are used to help establish the basic relationship in physical space...

Slashes and Backslashes

Note: I originally wrote this in the late 1990s, when much of the software environment at my work still consisted of DOS and Windows-console applications, and supporting our staff frequently involved detailing command-line options for them. Unfortunately, about 15...