by David | Dec 4, 2007 | technology, travel
It was my first semester away at college in a small Connecticut town. A group of other freshmen were talking about going down the hill into town and I heard the word “subway” in the conversation. “There’s a subway in this town?” I asked...
by David | Nov 18, 2007 | media, technology
Not this post, actually, but another post on this blog, one about my last-minute passport hassles this summer. I’m not going to link to it here for fear of making the problem worse. This post alone has attracted over 250 instances of comment spam. No other post...
by David | Nov 11, 2007 | culture, eating, media, technology
As we approach Thanksgiving season, there’s much talk of poultry, from the traditionally pardoned presidential turkey to the migration of Canada Geese to the ever trendy and and labor-intensive turducken to that excellent low-cholesterol portmanteau, torfurkey....
by David | Sep 29, 2007 | reading & writing, technology
Tagging is all the rage. It’s the marquee feature of WordPress 2.3, and it ties into all kinds of cool trends in information organization and visualization. Just to make sure everybody’s on the same page, Wikipedia defines the particular kind of tagging of...
by David | Sep 25, 2007 | technology
Ok, I waited for WordPress 2.3 and have installed it. Next steps, importing all the old entries and fixing up the template. Thank you for your patience during this time of transition. Looks like some of the images have broken and the video is definitely busted. And...
by David | Sep 19, 2007 | culture, media, technology, travel
A roundup of globe-related items. Obviously, I’ve got a thing for maps, as does my buddy Bruce in a different kind of way; and a globe is a very special kind of map indeed. I. GPS Visualizer Back in June, I posted about the Great Circle Mapper, a cool tool for...
