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Historical Fiction is one of my favorite genres to read, listen to, or watch. I am drawn to history to understand how the world… Read more »

Here’s a wonderful time-lapse movie of San Francisco Bay, shot from the Inn Above Tide in Sausalito. An entire day in 4 minutes. Click… Read more »

I have been a fan of audiobooks since you had to buy them on tape, and then on CDs. I used to drive regularly… Read more »

It was a couple years ago that I first heard about the idea of cat cafes. As a lifelong cat lover, the idea immediately… Read more »

It’s amazing what you can find wandering around in Google Maps.

I started this blog a bit over six years ago, when I left Adobe to figure out what was next. In the first few… Read more »

I’ve been a Mose Allison fan for more than 40 years. He’s now 82 and still playing clubs around the U.S. —this year, he… Read more »

This is a trivia item for those with some curiosity about common legal agreements. Why is it nearly universal in legal agreements that there’s… Read more »

So much animation on the web is gratuitous, underwhelming, and just plain unconvincing in terms of telling a story. Here’s a piece of very… Read more »

I wrote my previous post, Tracking the Cosco Busan, just after I published the animation of the ship’s track as it hit the Bay… Read more »

As you probably know, on Wednesday morning a 908-foot cargo ship, the Cosco Busan, ran into one of the San Francisco Bay Bridge towers,… Read more »

If you think of this as a computing blog, which it mostly is, this will seem like a wildly off-topic post. But those of… Read more »

craigslist is a fascinating anomaly in the world of large-scale web sites. Take a look at these numbers, as published by Craigslist with October… Read more »

Many English words have taken on new meanings in the digital world, often as product names. Since Google bases its search rank not on… Read more »

A little more than a year ago, I heard Jason Fried’s “Getting Real” talk at the second Web 2.0 conference. For me, it was… Read more »

If you thought email spam was bad enough, you should try running a web site with a user forum and a mailing list.

Those of you who may have started reading my blog for its relatively non-technical articles may have been mildly horrified, or at least repulsed,… Read more »

There’s a couple things I just don’t understand about the massive proliferation of spam. First, who responds to these messages? I assume someone must,… Read more »