December 2004

just a little light

December 30, 2004

I’ve been trying to come to grips with the news coming in about the Indian Ocean Tsunami. It seems so surreal. The pictures I’ve seen show that it was a beautiful day when this thing came lumbering ashore and just rolled over anything in its way. In the same way, here we are in the [...]

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Have a Great Day!

December 29, 2004

You know you’re not in New Jersey anymore when even the roadsigns greet you with excitement. Since we’ve been here Izumi and I have marveled how nice people are out here. The checkers at our local supermarket take time to talk to the kids and compare notes on the best way to cook the things [...]

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Battelle on “Sell Side Advertising”

December 25, 2004

I missed this the first time around but John Battelle’s description of how Overture and Ad Sense have flipped the old publisher-advertiser business relationship around makes sense. He polishes the idea a bit further in the latest issue of the MIT Technology Review: Imagine that we start with the idea of PPC—that advertisers pay publishers [...]

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Christmas Eve

December 24, 2004

We were invited to the Central Baptist Church by Betty, our landlord of two months, while we looked for our house. The service was an hour long. We sang a few hymns and had the lyrics conveniently projected onto the screen behind the pulpit, listened to a short sermon, then watched a short film that [...]

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Media Temple

December 24, 2004

Media Temple is our first hosting partner to offer Movable Type integrated into their hosting plans. For $5.95/month you can add Movable Type to your Shared Server hosting plan and pay for it as part of your monthly hosting fees.

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Udell on the definition of Blog

December 23, 2004

Jon Udell hits the mark again. I should be packing up for our big move up to the city (starting from January 3rd we’ll be at 548 4th Street in San Francisco) but got distracted reading an old InfoWorld column where Jon talks about the definition of blogs. A blog is more than the simplistic [...]

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James Lileks on Old Media

December 22, 2004

The Daily Peg pulls together some choice zingers from Star Tribune columnist and prolific blogger and ephemera archivist, James Lileks on the impending implosion of the old media. Blogs haven’t toppled old media. The foundations of Old Media were rotten already. The new media came along at the right time. Put it this way: you’ve [...]

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Run, Robot, Run

December 22, 2004

Honda made a robot that can run.

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Hamako Sushi

December 22, 2004

Last night Izumi and I went to Sushi Hamako on Carl Street in San Francisco. Run by a husband & wife team out of the ground floor of an old Victorian a few blocks from Haight-Ashbury, they’ve been putting out great sushi for the past 20 years. Open from 6:30pm until, “the rice runs out” [...]

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Care Package

December 22, 2004

We sent a care package to a friend’s cousin who is on the front lines in Iraq. Ramen noodles, socks, chapstick, note paper and some letters from the kids. We don’t necessarily support the political reasons for the war over there but we do want to show our support in some way and connect with [...]

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