We are all struggling with garbage. It comes in so many varied forms. In the world of information the battle against garbage may not take the form of a threat to the environment, but its threat to our time, sanity, and intellectual positions is clear and present. Like any researcher in an archive or a [...]
I gave my presentation today at the ICICE conference being held at the Yuanshan hotel here in Taipei. To be honest, it was a spectacular failure, and I record the story of it here for posterity. From the time I arrived, well before the conference formally opened with smoke, flashing lights, and Las Vegas boxing [...]
It has been quite busy since I arrived in Taipei. I have been trying to pack paper research, PhD applications and rewrites of my statement of purpose, spending some time with Sayaka and preparations for next week’s conference all into my limited two weeks here. Last night I began working on the powerpoint presentation (due [...]
As I mentioned in an earlier posting, the conference I was to present at in Taiwan was postponed because of SARS. Well, in about an hour I’m finally heading for Taipei both for this conference and to do a some research for a paper I’m working on. It doesn’t hurt of course, that Sayaka is [...]
My mother sent me an email a few days ago concerning her website: “There’s a guy who constantly leaves silly messages in my guestbook (calls himself Mugu). This has been going on for a couple of years now. I just delete them of course, but do we have any way of figuring out who he [...]
My servers are getting a little out of control. I am trying to consolidate all my sites to a single server in such a way that allows room for expansion, better control over my domains, and lowers my hosting costs. If you are reading this message, it means that the domain Muninn.net has successfully made [...]
I got tired of the fact that my site can’t be easily searched on Google and has a poor ranking. Ok, so my site has a poor ranking because no one is linking to it, but deep articles aren’t showing up at all because even if people linked to them, they aren’t linking to the [...]
A big box was waiting for me this afternoon when I came home. On the mailing label it just said, “Rice” My friend Hiroshi came back to Japan after working for a time in Central America for a charity, setting up a small school in rural Guatemala. While he is currently studying Spanish on the [...]
Lots of fun stuff going around the net in the last few weeks. Some I found interesting: -Glenn has passed on some good links lately. Looks like Japan is considering a project to provide GPS tracking of their kids in response to a recent kidnapping. This could do wonders for their safety, although I’m somewhat [...]
Sayaka and I went for some sandwiches at subway a few days ago. While enjoying our meal, I watched as someone ordered a side of french fries with their food. An employee filled a little bag with french fries and placed it on a scale. She then removed one french fry before giving it to [...]