March 31st, 2005
PostSecret makes for some compelling reading. It’s a collection of anonymously-submitted postcards on which people are free to reveal their deepest secrets. See what people are hiding.
Along the same line is group hug. “The idea is for anyone to anonymously confess to anything. It actually feels kind of good to know that someone will read it.”
March 30th, 2005
This is old-ish news, but new to me, so I thought I would share. This page has a couple of effective ways of speeding up Firefox page rendering. They work too!
Now, if you don’t know what Firefox is, you’re probably using Internet Explorer as a browser. You really should stop doing that. It’s not very good. Firefox is much better. Just try it for yourself and you’ll see it has much more awesomeness than IE and you’ll be making my life easier while I write the code for this site. Or you could buy a Mac and use Safari. That works too.
This concludes my highly-scientific evaluation of browser options.
March 29th, 2005
Business 2.0 has published this article detailing the possible innovations Apple may have in store for consumers. Wireless iPods, portable video displays, home entertainment networking, iPhones and car-stereo/iPod integration are the major speculations here. Worth a look for the Apple fanboys in the house.
March 26th, 2005
At least, compared to Dean Karnazes, you are. He has run a marathon at the South Pole. He has run the equivalent of ten marathons back to back. That’s about 262 Miles. It took him 75 hours to do it.
My heart wants to explode just thinking about that.
March 24th, 2005
I’m not even that into these kinds of video games, but the new Playstation Portable sounds pretty cool according to this article.
While I wouldn’t complain, I think I would still rather receive an iPod Photo for my birthday (or just as a random present since my birthday isn’t until June). You know, just in case anyone was wondering…
March 23rd, 2005
With my eye on the mend, my medication has dropped significantly and I am now returning to a normal level of physical activity. Not feeling exhausted every moment of the day has allowed me to once again enjoy basic activities like walking and breathing.
Really, I had been doing that for a while. Last Monday, however, it was time to get my butt moving a little. Blue skies beckoned and I decided to ride northward into the hills. With no idea where I was going or how long it would take me to get there, I was excited just to explore someplace new.
I criss-crossed roads on the Western side of Route 4 and eventually found myself scaling a hill that my now enfeebled legs and heart didn’t appreciate. But, only twice was I forced to dismount: once when the uphill rise was just too long to bear and again when the slope was too steep for me even on the best of days.
When I finally crested the hill, expansive farms and rice paddies greeted me on the other side. The wind whipped cotton clouds past the pastel blue sky and gave me more momentum than I needed to descend the rural road. My brakes threatened to start smoking, but never failed me.
I stopped for a few photos of the landscape and noticed a secluded hillside cemetery in the distance. This peaceful place was my next stop. There, I spent most of my time photographing the small Buddha statues placidly keeping watch over the graves.
Continuing on my uncharted path, I quickly departed my hard-fought high ground and again was skirting the base of the hill. The road home followed Route 4 up the hill once more, so my daily exercise only ended when I sped down the other side into Ichinoseki.
But Monday was only a warm-up for yesterday. The Japanese school year ends in March and re-starts in April. During that time, I am left to my own devices in the Board of Education offices. This has, in fact, been a boon - I’ve been able to work relentlessly on my new website. But, in an effort to get me out of the office and interacting with students during this month-long break from teaching, the office has suggested I go play basketball with the kids at Hagishou.
Considering how often I play with them when I teach at the school, it only makes sense that I should want to go and shoot some more hoops with them. They’re great kids and good little ball players. (I’m loathe to admit it, but there are actually a couple 15-year-olds there who are already better than me. One boy kept hitting threes and I pretty much had to give up on defending him - he just wouldn’t stop hitting them!) The only problem was that, in my weakened state, I like an octogenarian. I was panting like a husky in desert heat after only a few minutes of one on one.
March 21st, 2005
Sanjeev at the Nevashut is a cute Flash promo for Pringles. Talk to Sanjeev and distract him from his otherwise depressing time spent at the convenience store to win yourself some snacks.
It’s along the same lines as subservientchicken.com which is also worht a click if you haven’t seen it before.
March 18th, 2005
This article from newscientist.com is one of the more interesting things I’ve read in a while. It’s a discussion of various phenomena that have thus far baffled the scientific community. It’ll make your brain bigger.
March 18th, 2005
If your DSLR just isn’t giving you the size and quality you want, you could always try this 144-megapixel camera.
Granted, it’s not exactly a hand-held DSLR, and I imagine the image files are a bit of a hassle to work with, but I’d love to see just one of the full files to see the detail this contraption would deliver.
March 17th, 2005
The sun is shining. The birds are chirping. Mambo is mamboing and this site is starting to take shape.
The blog is up to date, The links section is populated. A new design is taking shape and looking not too shabby.
Of course, the ‘to do’ list remains much longer than the ‘completed tasks’ list. Much longer. However, with the posting of this news item, the news section has now started to get populated. Yay!
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