So, you’ve probably heard about Orkut, which has been labeled Google’s Friendster. Since it’s the Reg’s resident conspiracy theorist Andrew Orlowski doing the labeling there, it’s best to take it all with a grain of salt. Orkut appears to be Google-funded only inasmuch as Google allows its employees to work on personal projects for a […]

create your own visited country map Kind of boring, really. I need to travel more. I need to see Ireland sometime, and Japan and Australia are pretty high on the list. Iceland and the Scandinavian countries would be pretty neat too. Is it just me, or would this have worked a lot better with a […]

I’m a bit of a language nut — the sort that not only reads usage guides for fun, but contrasts them for fun — and I’ve wanted A Dictionary Of Canadianisms on Historical Principles (Walter Avis et al., eds; Toronto: W.J. Gage, 1967) for some time, but best as I can tell it only made […]

My tastes in furniture tend toward the capital-M Modern — Eames, Breuer, Saarinen, Le Corbusier, Gray, and so on. (Of course, I can’t afford much to any of that, but still.) Because of this, I always enjoy looking through catalogs from Design Within Reach, a web- and mail-order company which provide the sort of furniture […]

I want to tell you about snow. Specifically, I want to list all of the neat things that go with snow that make me really enjoy this time of year. Full disclosure: It is not snowing here currently. This brings me to the first reason I like snow: there is no escaping winter here, so […]

Just found out from Freeside that his baby, SPF, has been implemented by AOL: $ host -t txt aol.com aol.com text “v=spf1 ip4:152.163.225.0/24 ip4:205.188.139.0/24 ip4:205.188.144.0/24 ip4:205.188.156.0/24 ip4:205.188.157.0/24 ip4:205.188.159.0/24 ip4:64.12.136.0/24 ip4:64.12.137.0/24 ip4:64.12.138.0/24 ptr:mx.aol.com -all”

Merry Baunchmas!* Made it through another Christmas. This was a good year for the buying of presents; I was pretty happy with what I got for all of the adults I buy for. (The kids are old enough, and “cool” is fleeting enough, that they get gift cards.) It was a lot of fun buying […]

Apparently most of my group takes the days before Christmas off. Who knew? Boy, it’s empty in here today.