Site News
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Modernized!
I stuck with the previous theme for quite a while, but it was really just a new take on the old two-column blog layout I’ve used since blogspot, yo. It’s been a QUARTER CENTURY! But we are not going to talk about that today. Below, I am adding a photo of a waitress (the owner?) of a plate lunch joint in Pattaya we ate lunch at last year when visiting students interning at hotels and resorts there. If the photo does not appear, my new template needs additional tinkering. When I wrote the word “below” in the first paragraph, I should have said “above,” because that’s where it appears on…
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When Yahoo was King
I was recently asked about beta testing I did for Google’s cHTML site for NTT DoCoMo i-mode 20+ years ago on a clamshell keitai. Most of it was done between shots of Cuervo at Tramps (pout one out for Tramps, y’all!) in Kyobashi with my pal and Movable Type mentor, Bill. I actually corrected the color on the Google logo for i-mode (for which I received payment in the form of two black XL tees with the old school Baskerville Google logo that elicited many a “what is Google” at the company hanami on the banks of the O River in Sakuranomiya). I haven’t really felt that kind of freedom…
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WordPress — undefined constant error
I try to follow cardinal rules of data management that were drilled into me since I got into computers at university by (#1) taking backups often and (#2) keeping stuff organized. Well, the first one caused my site to go down today because I didn’t really follow the second one. I try to keep on top of things by doing a full site backup at least once a year, on top of doing periodic database and blog backups. When I finished the full backup today, it stored the tarball (a compressed .tar.gz archive) in my hosted account right next to two other huge ones from last year that I forgot…
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It’s Been Twenty Years and One Day…
…since I started this blog! In that first uninspiring post, I think I was referring to NTT cutting off my dual ISDN (64 + 64kbps !!) service or refusing my application for the then cutting-edge FTTH service to my rental home in Sumoto, Japan. I can’t say it seems like only yesterday; it actually feels like a few lifetimes ago. The first few years, blogging was new and exciting! I actually had a blog before this one up at Blogger. If I recall correctly, back then it required making a Blogger account (was it even named that?) and a separate Blogspot account and performing some kind of manual registration/installation. I…
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Thai Japanese English Lorem Ipsum WordPress Testing
１か月あまり名古屋に居たことがある。 そこで私たちを待っている幸福が、私たちが望むような幸福ではないかもしれない。 いろいろな意味で、正直が最善の策であることは言うまでもない。 すぐに戻ります。 イメージはマスコミの情報に形成される。 ＡＢＣ社のガードナー氏は、２月２０日から２７日までマリオットホテルに滞在中で、ぜひあなたに会いたいとのことです。 ああ、怖かった。 「怒ると彼はトラになる」というのは隠喩の例である。 いや、大丈夫だ。 いいからさっき盗ったモノを、カバンの中から出しなさい。 รีทัชฮิรุมบ้าออร์แกนิคสไตรค์ สเกตช์พุทโธคาปูชิโนชัวร์ ตนเองเธคดีไซน์ทาวน์เฮาส์ เห่ยอิออนโอเปอเรเตอร์ หม่านโถวเพลย์บอยล็อบบี้ ห่วยคอนเทนเนอร์คาแรคเตอร์วอลล์ บูติกรามาธิบดีอัลมอนด์รีสอร์ตช็อป เปราะบางตัวตน ฮิปโปโค้ชเมเปิล เลดี้ปฏิสัมพันธ์กาญจนาภิเษกสลัมแจ๊กพอต แทงกั๊ก อีโรติก สเปก ไกด์เหมย ป่าไม้โหลยโท่ย ไทยแลนด์สามช่ารีโมทกราวนด์ Contrary to popular belief, Lorem Ipsum is not simply random text. It has roots in a piece of classical Latin literature from 45 BC, making it over 2000 years old. Richard McClintock, a Latin professor at Hampden-Sydney College in Virginia, looked up one of the more obscure Latin words, consectetur, from a Lorem Ipsum passage, and going through the cites of the word in classical literature, discovered the undoubtable source. Lorem Ipsum comes from sections 1.10.32 and 1.10.33 of “de Finibus Bonorum et Malorum”…
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Changing WP themes makes me happy.
How happy? About this happy:
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New Host Test Post
We were down for approximately a day because I was coordinating the change while on a trip to Laos last week. A pox upon whoever bought JaguarPC and ruined a once-great webhost. My new host is much, much better, and I’m paying less than a quarter what I was to JaguarPC. I was with them for over twelve years – the last few years, their service got worse and worse and finally, they tried to double their fees on my yearly invoice, so fuck them. Want an honest webhost review for Jaguar PC? They are dishonest. They are slow. They suck. Great, hope that helps someone makes a decision. Here’s…
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Possible downtime pending
Might have to change webhost again.
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We are Cosmic Buddha
Aadab arz hai. They are not us, yo : Cosmic Buddha has never charged for music, mostly because we know we suck (although that obviously does not stop others). We have not released music for many years, but we have the Real Media files, several mixtapes, and Y2K coding errors to prove we were first. Our band predates our blog on this domain by 10 years or so, and it’s been going since 2003. Also, here’s some album art and gig posters from back in the day: Seongbulhaseyo. UPDATE: Really?
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Will blogging get a second chance?
Maybe after FB withers and joins Hi5 and MySpace in the Afternet, blogging will come back big… I really don’t care that much, but it would be kind of cool to see people writing more and emoji-ing less 😉 Also, WordPress completely prevented my posting capabilities today until I installed their new editor plugin called Gutenberg, which really reminds me of early HTML editing software (PageMill? GoLive? Claris?). I mean, I thought we ditched block editors for simpler editing tools… Or are there only nerds and techies still blogging?
