Entries from September 2006
We should all have such problems
But why did it have to happen right now?
Switching to Wordpress
I’d been using Movable Type for years, but had grown disenchanted with their dual-architecture of Perl+PHP. And I guess my life just wasn’t complicated enough. And I had the general sense that the Mandate of Heaven had shifted towards Wordpress, so I’m using that now.
Making this page look as much like my old page as [...]
Writing well and translating poorly
Paul Graham always writes interesting articles (though I can’t figure out for the life of me why he hosts them as a Yahoo store), but I don’t track him very closely, so when I ran across a link to his somewhat old Writing, Briefly, I read it eagerly.
And noticed with interest that it has been [...]
Gibberish mystery solved
Alan Siegrist, a scholar and a gentleman, has cracked the bad kanji tattoo code.
Who knew it could all be boiled down to 26 characters?
I want my hovercar too, dammit
Some British engineering firm has built a hybrid mini that gets 80 mpg, does 0-60 in 4.5 seconds, and has a radius of 800 miles. There is no doubt some hyperbole in this, and I suspect there are some unsolved problems (I wonder about the unsprung weight of those wheel-motors), but still, very impressive.
This [...]
