December 2008
39 posts
Helsinki is one of those cities from which you return and do things in your...
– The Local Flavor of Helsinki’s Food Revival - NYT (and yes, it’s true, the food in HEL right now is fantastic)
Monsters: Big, old, inscrutable, often invisible things. These are things with...
– more 765
Shipbreaking is something that happens in the global East and South:...
– Fred breaks it down on Baltimore, shipping, and ship breaking. 765: Soft Sites: Masonville Cove
And right here I part company with those who believe that copies and replicas...
– Setting the Record Straight About Ed Stone and Brad Cloepfil - WSJ.com
Dopplr/tripit: where's the history?
The trip model of Dopplr and Tripit is fundamentay flawed in that it assumes round trips originating from a home base. What about one way trips or people who have a rotating home base? While that’s a functional issue, the bigger problem is that the reliance on a home city means that there’s a missing piece of significant data in the dopplr/tripit record. Twenty years from now when you...
Some Things I Did Today
Changed the timezone on my computer to San Francisco
Investigated furniture show rooms in SF and LA
Broke my iPhone (somehow?!)
Ate 3 delicious tacos
Tried to buy a paper perforating wheel
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