文書は英語ですが、写真は共通
(though I'm taking a break from blogging for a while)
Archive for the 'General' CategoryGeneral posts Anthony sometimes really surprises us in the morning with what he's done before we awake. Sometimes it involves something bad, like pee-pee on the floor or poop under a table or the entire contents of a tissue box spread out over the floor. But more often, it's with something that amazes us because it represents a huge leap in his creativity or in some skill, such as when he built a most excellent street sweeper almost completely from his imagination, or a new level of artwork. Today was one of those "huge leap" days. The level of what he drew [...] 
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View full post » Of course, not even Eric Clapton could make music with this piece-of-crap plastic thing with wet spaghetti for strings. Whatever noise Anthony was making with it could be construed as "music" only in the most generous rose-colored light that only a parent sees in... a drunk, deaf parent, that is. Nevertheless, it was extremely enjoyable to watch. He used one of those plastic things that keeps a bread bag closed for the pick. As far as I know, he's never seen someone playing a guitar (except for Fumie and me playing with his toy), so I [...] 
View full post » I just came across the article Bribing Bloggers on Joel Spolsky's blog. Joel heads his own software company and has been blogging since 2000, and although I'd never heard of him, he's apparently an extremely popular blogger (having 4,500 times more subscribers on Bloglines than I!). In the article, he writes about how Microsoft is offering bloggers free laptops and other gifts in the hopes of garnering positive exposure. (Unfortunately, Microsoft must have lost my email address, because I have a blog but was not offered a free laptop.) Joel discusses whether it's ethical to accept such gifts, [...]
In case you haven't noticed a cute little feature I added to my blog last month, click on one of the "Index of Photos" links in the right-hand nav bar of the main page, such as "Appearing in 2006." These indices show a small, square thumbnail for every photo that appeared on my blog during the year in question. Clicking on one brings you to the corresponding post, so it's a quick way to find a post when you can remember only the photo. (I'm probably the only one who would find this useful, but it's a pretty [...]
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