wordpress and hostway
Sunday, May 11th, 2008i just had my host move this blog over to a new machine, and in the process it stopped working. it took me a little while to remember this post describing how to get your .htaccess file working.
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i just had my host move this blog over to a new machine, and in the process it stopped working. it took me a little while to remember this post describing how to get your .htaccess file working.
happy mother’s day, mom
Sunday, May 11th, 2008i will refrain from wailing on the commercial nature of this day, per your request.
the number you have reached…
Thursday, May 8th, 2008...is no longer in service. the new number is +011 506 83885686. please make a note of it. (i.e. i no longer have a 415 area code number).
ethanol from corn is a bad idea
Monday, April 28th, 2008it was apparent from the beginning that using corn as a feedstock for ethanol was a bad idea. with a global food crisis happening, it is becoming apparent how bad. that and agriculture protectionism / subsidies. from an article in the washington post yesterday: The food price shock now roiling world ...
housesitting
Monday, April 28th, 2008i am housesitting while my friend shaun hikes up the big mountain chirripo. it's an awesome place she designed and has the only bookstore in the vicinity on the first floor. there are blue crabs who slowly inch over to anything that drops into their corner of the yard, before ...
please open up your laptop and enter your password
Tuesday, April 22nd, 2008now this makes me proud to be an american. (via catspaw)"I think it will surprise people that their laptops are subject to search without any level of suspicion when they get to a border checkpoint," added Jennifer Chacon, a law professor at the University of California, Davis. "I think it ...
strong dollar policy is BS
Thursday, April 17th, 2008former secretary of the treasury paul o'neill says aloud what we all know is true: the stated US "strong dollar" policy is bullshit. ``When I was Secretary of the Treasury I was not supposed to say anything but `strong dollar, strong dollar,''' O'Neill said today. ``I argued then and would argue ...
eco-everything
Thursday, April 17th, 2008i haven't been in the US for three months, and one observation i have is it seems like the number of companies advertising their products in association with some kind of social or environmentally-conscious cause has exploded. mind you, it seemed like it was on the rise before, but my ...
google trends and stock market trends
Wednesday, April 16th, 2008paul kedrosky has an interesting post up comparing a chart of CROX's price, and another chart from google trends showing that the number of searches for the product "crocs" peaked and headed south about 3 or 4 months before the stock began a precipitous decline. i wonder if anyone over ...
philosophy
Sunday, April 6th, 2008i thought i had posted this but i guess not... according to a nyt article today, philosophy is enjoying a resurgence of popularity on US campuses. i was a philosophy major in school, and i have been saying a lot of the things mentioned in the article in defense of what ...
