Rare-ish Foods
My wife and I like to eat a lot of non-standard items such as purple and yellow carrots and purple potatoes. Here are some images of foods we’ve eaten in … →The Purple Carrot (Rare-ish foods part deux)
And here are some images of the purple carrot and yellow carrots we found at our local natural foods coöp. I promise the soup tasted better than it looks. Even … →Black Carrots
Since learning about the black carrot about a month or so ago, I have been fascinated with the idea of growing and eating them myself. The world carrot museum … →Convert .m4a files to .mp3 format (with tags)
A Perl utility I wrote to convert .m4a files to .mp3 format. It will also pull the tags over from m4a format. If there are no m4a tags, the script will die. … →Saga of the Date Palms… Parte 1
So my wife & I have been on a date kick lately. Not the kind of dates you go on, but the kind you eat. Since we’ve been going really green the past 3 … →Facebook account deletion link
In case anyone is looking for it: https://www.facebook.com/help/contact.php?show_form=delete_account This is the official Facebook delete account link. You can … →Spanish learning resources
I wrote this a couple of years back. Some of the information (esp. chronological) no longer applies. -2012Jan02 El idioma español seems to be gaining quite a … →spicnspan.pl – “clean up” text files
At times I get tired of editing code with tabs. And by “at times”, I mean every time. I hate tabs in code. I hate trailing spaces in code too (makes … →Japan – initial experiences
I am in transit from London to Auckland, with an 8-hour layover in Tokyo, so I thought that I might as well explore the city a bit. (As of the last 10 years or … →Take Action. Now.
The Karma Machine Note: This workshop in Wellington has been canceled by the school due to the low number of participants enrolled. I just enrolled in a … →