http://zenvilla.com/blog sometimes coherent! Sun, 04 Jun 2006 05:14:59 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I've just finished re-reading a nice article on Daring Fireball titled "Apps of the Year, 2004" and it occurred to me that we never got similar treatment from DF regarding John's favourite apps of 2005. That's an article I would really like to see. Sure, we have the MacMinute Showtime ... http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2006/04/22/apps-of-the-year-2005-where-are-you/ I've just now finished upgrading my WordPress install from 1.2.1 to 1.5.2 in the hopes that the new feature set would help with the comment spamming. I've been slowly turning off comments for all my posts because the spam just keeps on increasing, even with comment moderation turned on. The ... http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2005/10/19/late-to-the-party/ Tomorrow is the day of the big event. I imagine the untouchable Takeru "Tsunami" Kobayashi will be competing again and if he does, I'm curious to see if he'll be able to beat his current World Record holding performance of 53.5 hot dogs in 12 minutes. To read more about the ... http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2005/07/03/nathans-annual-hot-dog-eating-contest/ The Quzco group is putting on their 1st outdoor party of the year (as far as I know) and it's coming up this weekend. It starts at 3 PM on Saturday and runs until it's done on Sunday. It's in Miyama-cho, Kyoto and the line-up is all local from either ... http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2005/06/02/groovy-time-rave-in-kyoto/ This is pretty cool. You can now setup your Bloglines account to display weather for various cities on top of bringing you your daily dose of news feeds. Good stuff. As much as I like desktop aggregators there's just nothing like the always on service of Bloglines. Even when my iBook ... http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2005/05/25/bloglines-does-the-weather/ Ha! What a joke this is. From the New York Times on April 22nd. An article by one James Brooke discussing the ban on U.S. beef currently imposed by the Japanese government. This comes only a few days after an editorial piece by Nicholas D. Kristof, one of the Times regular ... http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2005/04/24/no-accountability-at-the-new-york-times/ The new year is upon us and with it, a special gift for XBit, a brand new bug! It seems the code that handles downloading new issues from the TidBITS FTP server had a slight oversight in it. The result, no new issues for you! That such a simple bug ... http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2005/01/17/xbit-102-released/ I thought the recent move to my new host had gone smoothly. Everything looked good and I was happy how quickly it all came together. The end of year holiday season is rather hectic after all. Not as much face time with the iBook as I usually have. So I ... http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2005/01/16/some-testing-required/ We'll I think I've made a decision regarding my forced move away from Bloghosts. I've opened an account with A Small Orange and I've been playing with the account over the last few weeks. Things seem to be in order and their response times are good so over the next ... http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2004/12/11/a-small-orange/ This is just too funky not to love. It's good to know that gadget geeks in Japan are keeping that childhood dream of an amazing and fantastic future alive. http://zenvilla.com/blog/archives/2004/12/10/robots-are-cool/