because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 11th, 2008
Like any self-respecting nerd with a website, I have a statistics package that tracks visits and page views on my site, and produces graphs and tables and other suitably nerdy artifacts for me to drool over. My package of choice is Mint, from Shaun Inman. (Check out the excellent review by Shawn Blanc.)
My visit numbers [...]
After dipping our toes into the tai chi pool last summer, Sibylle and I have been looking for some physical exercise to improve our overall body tone and fitness. Quite by accident, during a conversation with a work acquaintance, I discovered the name of a personal trainer and fitness professional, who teaches hatha flow yoga [...]
Posted in health on Feb 7th, 2008
As the image to the right shows, the layout of the different focal areas on a progressive lens introduce some interesting geometry into the lenses structure. In an effort to produce a lens that mimics natural, un-corrected vision, without lines, the optimal corridor of vision can be rather small. Not to mention the size of [...]
Posted in health on Feb 6th, 2008
This afternoon, after two weeks of anticipation, I picked up my new glasses. The frames and lens shape and size fit my face perfectly. Both Sibylle and I are very pleased with how they look. Unfortunately i am finding it hard to see through them.
Because I needed astigmatism correction as well as [...]
Posted in social issues on Feb 6th, 2008
It seems the Google searches for candidate names leading up to the recent primaries and caucuses, accurate predict the winner. Via Advertising Lab.
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 5th, 2008
There seem to be two schools of thought regarding comments on personal blogs. Prominent sites like Daring Fireball don’t allow comments, and moreover, explain why. Other equally prominent sites have huge comment threads on nearly every post published.
Zanshin.net is by no means prominent. After nearly eight years of having a blog I [...]
Posted in social issues on Feb 4th, 2008
If your state has already held it’s primary or caucus, I hope you participated. If you are part of the enormous collection of states casting votes tomorrow, please exercise your franchise. The future of America will be decided by those who show up. If you don’t participate then you can’t complain about [...]
Posted in life on Feb 3rd, 2008
While Sibylle and I were in Manhattan yesterday, so that she could teach, the Lexus was backed into. Again. Regular readers of zanshin will know that in August, while moving into our townhouse, someone visiting the neighbor backed his mini-van in to the right, rear passenger side of the car, doing roughly $1968 damage. On [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 1st, 2008
After trying to enable remote access to my home network and discovering that AT&T doesn’t really allow inbound connections, I’ve resorted to a different solution for access-from-anywhere-version-control.
Roundhaus
Roundhaus, has this to say about their subversion offering,
Working with subversion repositories has never been easier. Create new projects, assign permissions, add and remove people all from a simple [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 1st, 2008
Along with mileage palindromes, I am also fascinated with those times of the day which are only expressed using the digits 0 (zero) and 1 (one). If you use a 24-hour clock you can produce all 16 values valid in a 4-digit binary string. Like so:
0:00
0:01
0:10
0:11
1:00
1:01
1:10
1:11
10:00
10:01
10:11
11:00
11:01
11:10
11:11
