I had a large mug of chai masala at the start of our evening cooking class in Udaipur two nights ago and the next thing I know I’m tweaking my about page until four in the morning. It’s the only revamp I’ve done since I first cobbled the thing together years ago. Let me know what you think…

Heaven in the xkcd universe

Outsiders view companies as omniscient and omnipotent (imagine me linking to every single article that has ever been written about Google). Insiders know that companies are composed of actual living, breathing people, and people are not infallible.

“You know, we’re just individuals. We’re just humans running these companies.”

In fact sometimes it’s amazing that people in companies manage to accomplish anything at all.

(Great title on that article by the way)

Outsiders always seem to fixate on creation myths. Insiders focus on the iceberg.

Stephanie took a very cool weaving class back when we were in Luang Prabang: Part I and Part II

Yes yes yes yes yes yes YES! How to steal like an artist (and 9 other things nobody told me)

So much in this I’ve said, written, believe. Crazy to see it all put down like that in one place by someone else. Going to have to let it percolate for a while, reread, and possibly refer back to later. In the meantime, I highly recommend reading.

I found it both cool and scary to learn that there’s some JavaScript that can automagically hyphenate your typography on the web. Me, I’ve found a relatively narrow column width (380 pixels, ~65 characters per line) plus text-align:justify to be sufficient for my purposes (via Tim Bray)

Go Stephanie!

And now both of my biggest fears are overcome (Indian mega city and overnight train ride), the sky’s the limit ;)

It’s funny. I’ve spent untold hours helping people migrate their comments off Haloscan and into WordPress, and now what do I see popping up all over?

Disqus amongst yourselves.

I find this sad: Waxing Frida (Mostly because it seems to impose modern, western ideals of feminine beauty on a renowned, beautiful woman from the past in a way that erases prominent facial features that she proudly incorporated into her own art—rather than critiquing said ideals. I mean what’s next, giving her a photoshopped nose job?) via Tralalère!

What would Michael Pollan say? Portlandia: Is It Local?

Neat tool for looking up words based on any number of criteria: Word Matcher

It’s April 2nd in Bangkok, dammit! It’s not fair that I’m getting April Fooled! Apparently DreamHost is now part of the Endurance International Group! (read it and I kept going, “whut, no, whut, no!”)

Marcia sez: I have held my book in my arms like a colicky baby (DIY Cocktails is out)

Oh dear:

Facebook profiles are more or less de rigeur for anyone with an Internet connection.

Also, thing I did not know, and have a hard time believing without context (from the same article):

Google commands 12.6% of the annual $10.1 billion U.S. online ad spend; Facebook trumps that figure by nine full percentage points. (Source: eMarketer)