I wanted to show the random quotes from my PostNuke installation here on this new blog software. Given the details of a Mysql connection, and the table information for the quotes, I wanted to make a new script to display a random quote below the calendar. I slapped together such a script and you can [...]
While I’m venting my frustrations, I want to explain to everyone why I don’t really enjoy going to “izakaya” or many restaurants as a form of multi-hour social activity: 1) Many of them are smoky or have smoke filled “non-smoking” areas. Today I was dragged out to a dinner party with the students I teach [...]
I’m really happy to see some real attempts at change here in Tokyo when it comes to the horrible pollution from the cigarette smoke. Most of my friends know that I’m really sensitive to smoke. First I noticed all the “No Smoking On the Streets” or “No Smoking While Walking” signs painted on the pavement [...]
I went to visit my friend Michael Zock down at 東工大. As I left Shibuya on the 東横 train line I saw over a dozen people taking pictures of the trains and most of all, the electric board showing train departures. I thought, “How cute, some Asian tourists visiting Japan are taking pictures of the [...]
I have installed James Seng‘s excellent little MoveableType plugin which helps prevent bots from spamming the comments of a blog. When you post a comment to this blog, to prove you are human, you will need to enter a number which is visible as an image. Until comment spammers come up with some way to [...]
I’m a fan of the Very Short Introductions book series from Oxford University Press. Each book tries to give you a short introduction about a particular topic and, at a 100-200 tiny pages, they can be read in just a few hours. I have been using them for exactly what they are meant for: a [...]
The process of transferring entries from PostNuke to MT is complete so all the articles are here. Left to do: 1) move all the comments over 2) Add all the links and quotes to the templates 3) Make a design for the new Muninn.
I am in the process of transferring Muninn to Moveable Type. For a few days things will be in a state of flux here…I need to import entries, etc. The link to the home page will remain the same…
Well, after Tuesday, I guess I will sort of know if I have to eat my words in my recent posting announcing not only my support for Dean but confidence in his coming victory. While reading Cliopatria today I came across a great link to a Presidential Match website. It was better than other attempts [...]
My friend Jae has posted an interesting entry, which includes a quote which I believe comes from a book he is reading called Bridges and Boundaries. I have yet to read this so I shouldn’t comment much on it, but the quote is quite intriguing: “the primary goal of historians is to describe, understand and [...]