“With overall membership on the wane in Japan, union leaders were only too happy to welcome newcomers, no matter how unconventional the trade.” In Search of Justice and Enlightenment • Los Angeles Times • February 23, 2006 (or via SFGate.com)
Monthly Archives: February 2006
The migration is done
I’ve finished putting in all of my old blog entries from TrailBlazing into this one. I haven’t posted any photos yet, so all those links are still broken, but everything else is in. As I was categorizing my entries for the first time, I realized how many different topics I’ve blogged about. The blog’s living …
Software for dealing with vacation photos
It’s been more than a month since I came back from Taiwan, and I’m still organizing our photos from our trip to Asia. In Taiwan, Matt and I had CDs burned with my photos and some of his. And then a couple of weeks ago, Michael gave me a DVD with photos from him and …
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MythBusters
I saw MythBusters on the Discovery Channel for the first time last Saturday and again tonight. It has instantly become one of my favorite TV shows. Tonight they fired handguns and rifles, including a 50-caliber, into a pool to see how deep underwater you would have to be to avoid getting hurt (at 30 degrees, …
Visiting San Francisco
It’s odd that, now that I’m living in the South Bay, I seem to be going to San Francisco more often than I was in Berkeley. In fact, I’ve gone up once a week for the past 4 weeks: to visit Francis, Simona, Rich, and Agata [photo]; Ame and Chris’s wedding reception; a Super Bowl …
Turin or Torino?
Are the Winter Olympics being held in Turin or Torino? Yes. Different media outlets are using different conventions: the Chronicle says “Turin,” while NBC and CBS Radio say “Torino.” I find “Torino” to be a little jarring. We don’t usually use the local name for a city if it has a different English name: we …
Moving to WordPress.com
While Yahoo 360 has an easy-to-use blogging service, it’s a little too basic for me. There are three things that are missing: Putting my entries into categories Importing entries from my old blog Changing the template of the blog (let’s face it, I’m a control freak) So now I’m giving WordPress.com a shot. It’s got …
Restaurants to try out
There a few restaurants that have been featured on Check, Please! Bay Area on KQED Channel 9 that I want to try out. Ninna in Oakland: Mediterranean/Thai fusion. Sounds weird, but all three reviewers thoroughly enjoyed it. Piperade in San Francisco: Basque Bissap Baobab in San Francisco: Senegalese Aziza in San Francisco: California-inspired Morrocan (or …
Trying out Yahoo! 360°
(This was originally posted to my Yahoo! 360° blog) Unfortunately, the site that was hosting my blog, TrailBlazing.org, has unexpectedly gone down, and its maintainer, my friend Francis, doesn’t have time to track down the problem. Plus, I don’t want him to spend time fixing something that, essentially, only I was using. So I’m now …