We have to compete with the birds for our share of vegetables from the garden. Rufous-sided towhees live in the pittosporum hedge and pop out regularly for their meals. The California quail are regular visitors, the whole family coming to see what tasty snack they can find. Broad (Fava) Beans with Snow Peas and Onions in Rows Behind Them The CD hangs on a stick in a vain attempt to scare the birds away. | Continue »

A couple of snapshots tracking mouse movements and clicks with Mousepath. 1. Company Meeting: Firefox, Safari, Aduim, Colloquy – 1 hr. 2. Mockup edits: Photoshop, Firefox, Mail, TextMate, Preview, Adium – 3 hrs. More here. | Continue »

File under: this type of coverage makes me seriously doubt what I'm reading about topics I know less about. CNN covers the "major new app store" that the wireless carriers are cooking up. And the story's written as if this... | Continue »

And here it is, my favorite paragraph of the day. There's *so* much that's great in this. | Continue »

When people talk about the future they were promised as kids they often say, "where are the flying cars?" The iPad is the flying car of consumer electronics. It's the exact device that the futuristic movies and tv shows have always promised us and now it's here. Personal computers (both... | Continue »

via www.youtube.com The awesomeness of Google's super bowl ad made me try the similar search query Impress a Japanese girl. The result was that I should go to Izakaya for a nomikai. Hrm, i bet that's not a great way to impress a Japanese girl. Actually if you do that for the first date i guess you'll be doomed. My friend suggested that I should modify the query to say Impress my Japanese girlfriend to avoid the part to hook up with. Oh well, now google tells me that I have to learn about Matcha, Japanese tea, to surprise your Japanese girlfriend. I bet that doesn't work, unless you're a gaijin ... :) Finally just in case, I just changed... | Continue »

Two great things about John Scalzi's wrap up of the Amazon / Macmillan cluster this weekend. First, this bit: The letter took time to praise Amazon but also did some interesting rhetorical heavy lifting — for example, labeling Amazon a... | Continue »

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