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or "What do Amazon, A9 Search, Yellow Pages, 90210, and the Mile End of Montreal have in common?" Trying to see if I had a connection, I hit my A9 bookmark. It worked. Once there I noticed a prominent link...

The Spec The Guide How to start using it. I've heard some of the bigwigs are "backing it"... ;) As soon as I have confirmed RSS aggregator support, I throw the switch... and let y'all know too... :)...

In a few hours I am meeting up with a group of 30 people, mostly strangers, to head off for a skiing/snowboarding/onsen/ryokan weekend in Nagano. I'll be offline until late Sunday night JST. :)...

I was gonna write it up but then remembered that 6A "did the right thing" and updated all their syndication feed templates to publish full entries. The templates can be found here. Note that only the Atom one includes Extended...

If I read one more weblog entry talking about tags and/or folksonomies, I'll wretch (cow tongue sashimi, too much red wine and a bumpy cab ride through Tokyo not required). If your RSS/Atom feed doesn't contain full entry text, I...

Omotesando, Harajuku, Tokyo, Japan...

I'm sitting in the Good Day Café, just off Aoyma Itchome/Omotesando (search me how the street names work in this place...) in Harajuku, Tokyo. I spark my NewsReader, go to my folder of Montreal RSS subscriptions... and I am 100%...

Metro station wall. Current desktop. Shinjuku, Tokyo (If you look really closely, you can see my reflection on the right side.)...

Shinjuku, Tokyo. Near the trainstation....

Here's how the last 60 hours or so of my life went by. Let's begin at 10:00 am EST Tuesday January 11th, 2005. I awake with the knowledge that this would be the last real rest I would get until...

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I am at Jim and Yuka's ultra awesome apartment, gonna wash up and head out to Harajuku to hook up with Gen, on who's couch I will spend the first night. (Thanks to all three of you!!!) Damn it...

Emma made sure I'd be as uncomfortable for the next few days as she may well be... ;) I'm off....

Warren from Plank just emailed to share the info that a former coworker of ours, Jen, was in Phuket, Thailand, on "the day". Her personal account....

Samsung Lets Subscribers Dictate Text Messages (What a silly title for a news item... Samsung "lets"?? How about "facilitates" or "provides the ability to"... I don't need any mega corp "let" me do anything! Pshaw! Anyways...) Samsung supposedly has a...

I dropped off my car at the VW dealership. (The passenger side window dropped into the door again and my mechanic said I might as well go to the dealer. This apparently is a VERY common problem for Mark V...

I think it may be some sort of meta-cinema-type-thing where the audience will be filmed watching films......

Radetzky-Marsch, Op.228 Johann Strauss, Sr. (mp3 ~4.6meg) This is the kind of stuff I imagine was being blared in the house I grew up in during my parents' yearly New Year's Eve parties, though I can't remember. The first few...

Boulevard St-Denis, Montréal, Québec, Canada...