Sep
30
I’m currently working my way through Will Ferguson’s “Hitching Rides with Buddha”. A humorist’s view of hitchhiking across Japan during the Cherry Blossom season. Ferguson is a reasonably well-known Canadian humorist and his writing style is hilarious. Anyone desiring a deeper understanding of (or a good fun take on) of Japanese cultural uniqueness and how …
Sep
29
In a final effort to rid myself of the MySQL errors that I was seeing from time to time (and most of you were seeing), I decided to nuke the database and restore everything from backups. This mostly worked and the site is largely running again with the WordPress 2.3 release and some local tweaks. …
Sep
29
In an excellent example of a Web mashup, a fellow named Paul has glued housing listings from craigslist together with Google maps. Sweet. His handwork is at housingmaps.com.
Sep
06
Tim Bray on Facebook Rules: “If not, then not. If so .. in which case no… “ Tim Bray has a great writeup on Facebook friend requests and applications. I have to admit that I largely agree. People who use social networking as a popularity contest devalue the meaning of friend for the network as …