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I started meditating a week or so ago. I took an introductory class, then added a session to my daily routine, and I’ve been keeping up with it pretty faithfully so far. It’s…interesting! I’m not particularly spiritual, but the health benefits, both mental and physical, are well established. I’m always interested in ways to be [...]

As a kid, my parents told me to eat my vegetables. My pastor told me to be nice to other kids. The state of California told me I couldn’t drive until I was 16 years old. My teachers told me – and more importantly, my parents – how I should go about learning things. Some [...]

The documentary film Re:Generation teams up dance music DJs with musicians in traditional genres – classical, rock, R&B, jazz, and country – to combine the best of each. We noticed it on Hulu the other night and idly pressed play, not expecting much. Boy, were we wrong. Re:Generation grabbed us and didn’t let go. It’s [...]

I just finished playing Journey. It was amazing, as I’d hoped. thatgamecompany is so damn good at their craft. Sadly though, the automatic, drop-in multiplayer actually detracted from my experience. I thought they’d only use it sparingly, which could have worked, but instead they paired me with other players for most of the game.

I’ve just published activitystreams-unofficial, a stand-in ActivityStreams server for major sites that don’t implement it themselves. It currently has implementations for Facebook and Twitter, deployed at these endpoints: facebook-activitystreams.appspot.com twitter-activitystreams.appspot.com This complements the unofficial WebFinger and PortableContacts providers I published recently. I’ve updated the WebFinger provider to include Link elements pointing to these new ActivityStreams [...]

I’m about to finish and post my next side project, activitystreams-unofficial. My last post was a side project too, though, so I’m reluctant to post another right away, since I want this blog to be more about other things. Unfortunately, I don’t have anything special to say right now. Life is good, friends and family [...]

I’ve just published portablecontacts-unofficial, a stand-in PortableContacts server for major sites that don’t implement it themselves. It currently has implementations for Facebook and Twitter, deployed at these endpoints: facebook-poco.appspot.com twitter-poco.appspot.com They complement the unofficial WebFinger providers I published last month, which I’ve updated to include Link elements pointing to the new PortableContacts endpoints. Both are [...]

For a long time, I thought economic inequality was basically OK. Sorry, I should rephrase: I thought it was bad, of course, but not inherently harmful. I changed my mind recently, and I’ve been reflecting on why and what I can learn from it. The complaints about inequality always seemed to boil down to the [...]

Inspired by Schemer, I dragged my family and Gina on a tour of a few of San Francisco’s POPOS earlier today. From SPUR’s survey: “POPOS” stands for privately-owned public open spaces – publicly accessible spaces owned and maintained by the owner of an office building. POPOS come in many forms: plazas, roof gardens, greenhouses, atriums [...]

A couple days ago, halfway through a busy night, I lost my phone. Happily, I got it back just half a day later, along with some lessons learned and a great story. I tried all sorts of high tech tricks, but in the end it was pen and paper and a bit of foresight that [...]