Fumie took this shot of three-year-old Anthony at the Krystal Suites hotel pool (Penang Island, Malaysia). I'm sure he was just looking down at a bug or something, but in the photo he looks like something out of an Abercrombie & Fitch catalog, or a Calvin Klein Jeans billboard. I love the shot.

Okay, I'm not all that sure what that title really means, but the gist of it is that while there was gloriously sunny and short-sleeve-warm weather the other day, and the cherry trees were thick with buds and juuuust starting to blossom, a raging spring storm blew through on Tuesday with wind and rain and even hail(!), and then the temperatures plummeted resulting in even a bit of snow, and since then it's been cold, with even more snow just outside my window right now, leaving the dreary impression that this year's cherry-blossom season will be as short and [...]
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My sister Marcina Kreta just delivered Joshua James Kreta (the evening of the 28th, Southern-California time). I'd been checking email every minute for the last three weeks waiting for word -- little Joshua was quite tardy in his debut.

It remains to be seen if he'll go by "Joshua", "Josh", "JJ", or what. In fact, he remains to be seen at all -- I got a text message from Marty (his daddy) and have no info other than "8 lbs 13 oz" and "both doing fine". I notice he does not comment as to how he's doing 🙂 [...]
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In my previous post I talked about looking at my server log files to see what kind of search-engine queries brought people to my pages. One such query that I noticed in the log this morning brought a smile to my face:

I don't know who did the search or why they were looking for it, but they certainly found what they were after. It brought them to a set of pages I'd made years ago and had largely forgot about, and didn't know were even indexed [...]
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Every so often I look at my webserver logs to see by what means people happen to find pages on my web server. It's particularly interesting to look at the web searches that bring people to random blog pages and the like, and it can sometimes be quite amusing just to see the variety.

As one might expect, many of the searches that bring people here are related to my book (since the book's web site is also on this server). There are also a fair number of searches on my name, which are probably book-related as [...]
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