because not enough websites start with the letter “Z”
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 9th, 2008
For the past three days Sibylle has had the good fortune to attend a piano master class at a nearby university. The presenter, head of the Yale Piano department, spent an hour with each student, listening to their piece and then helping them to mold it, or improve it in some way. Some [...]
Posted in nerdliness, social issues on Mar 1st, 2008
Okay, I realize that Barack himself probably didn’t thumb this message into his iPhone and send it to all of his Twitter followers. Still, I’d like to think that he was involved in the process somewhere, if only to give verbal approval that the message be sent.
Even so, it’s pretty cool to get a [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Mar 1st, 2008
I’ve made some updates to my resume, it now looks like the paper one (more or less). Go have a look, and feel free to pass on any comments or suggestions.
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 21st, 2008
If you are like me, you have at least once in your email usage history, accidentally sent a mail that you either didn’t mean to send, or immediately wanted to recall to edit or attach or otherwise massage before sending. Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a way to hold your outbound emails for [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 15th, 2008
Until I generated a graph of my site, I never knew it contained a sunflower.
(Click on the image to generate one of your own.)
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 13th, 2008
Most technology reviews happen shortly after the hardware or software is released, and the reviewer has had only a limited time to tinker with the product. Publishing is not without a sense of one-upsmanship, and getting your review to press first is the only way to win that game.
Here at Zanshin.net World Headquarters, I’ve [...]
Posted in nerdliness on Feb 12th, 2008
Great Googly Moogly!
Yesterday I put up a short posting about wistful thinking, wondering what it would be like to have more than a handful of visitors to my site in a day (or week, or month). Today I know what that feels like thanks to the generosity and kindness of one man.
This morning, as usual, [...]
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 [...]
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 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 [...]
