September, 14, 2004 archives

this reuters article about the proposal to mostly-destruct the old ambassador hotel says it is to build a school in “crowded downtown neighborhoods.”

news flash: the ambassador hotel is out near wilshire and western. that ain’t downtown.

after meeting joshua schachter at foo camp, i decided that i should take another look at del.icio.us, which he created. i’d consider it a bit of a spiritual cousin of blo.gs, in that it is basically not-for-profit, and a way for him to blow off creative steam.

here’s my del.icio.us page, which i may at some point figure out a way to incorporate here.

i am definitely planning on revamping the crude category system i wrote for this blogs to be tag-based. tags are what all the cool kids are doing these days.

i wrote nearly 1200 words this afternoon. it is one of those things where getting started is the hard part. and, i guess, going back and editing and rewriting to make what is written actually coherent. but i’ll experience more of that tomorrow.

is there anything about unicode and character set support in mysql 4.1 that you want explained? now would be a good time to tell me.