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WP Success

Finally got this place updated to the latest flavor of WordPress. I was tired of seeing that “you are in danger of being hacked by Ukranian credit-card thieves” note every time I logged in.

More than that, though, I was tired of never being able to log in. This hosting company isn’t the best I could have chosen. Time to look into new digs for durf.org, I think.

Work remains busy. Baby remains adorable. Last night I had a quick drink or three with Jed the brave JAT webperson. He showed me his MacBook Air and the translation software he’s working on: langwidget. (LangWidget? He studiously avoids the shift key on that site so it’s hard to tell.) Looked very slick—it works in a browser and lets translators share their translation units (pairs of words or phrases for source and target languages) with the other folks using the software, using the Internet and data clouds and magic and so on. Not exactly the sort of product I could put to good use in my unpredictable, nonrepetitive work, but for many kinds of translation these tools are indeed helpful and his may one day be a nice, platform-agnostic addition to their number.

04/17/2008 | friends, translation, web | Comments Off

Costume photos

Each year a bunch of us from the company (current and former) get together at the home of the person with the largest home for a Halloween party. Sometimes this is right around Halloween (this year it was a few days later, on Friday) and some years it’s much later. Once it was close to Thanksgiving so we had turkey along with our pumpkin.

Click the pic for photos with captions in Japanese. This was the first time I used iWeb to actually publish anything online, so it was like an adventure! to the land where tightly coded websites are extinct. But no matter. Anyway, I was dressed as Saitô Yûki, the “handkerchief prince,” a high school baseball pitcher who won fans in this year’s national tournament for his ridiculously long-lasting arm and his little towel he used to wipe his face instead of his sleeve. My wife went as a baseball.

11/06/2006 | friends, fun, life | 4 Comments

Book on the way

Next month it’ll be reading time. T. Miller’s book is on the way! From the looks of things it’ll be a paean to the wise stewardship our nation has enjoyed during this time of conflict. Yup.

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(Now with all improved, not so monstrously large image of book cover.)

08/24/2006 | friends | Comments Off

Matty and the Fish




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Originally uploaded by Durf.

Matt Staples posing with Daniel Fish’s little tyke, Jordan Lee da Silva Fish. I’m not sure where “Naked Noodle” is located but I’m guessing it doesn’t involve lots of Japan-style hot ramen slurping. The soup splashback could get painful.

05/29/2006 | friends | Comments Off

You find the strangest things . . .




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Originally uploaded by Stineyee.

. . . when you’re wandering around Flickr looking at stuff. Hi James!

03/17/2006 | friends, web | 2 Comments