Nov 30, 2006
Chris J Davis has created a geeky cool plugin for wordpress that allows you to easily put up your “lifestream” Essentially a timeline that documents all your online antics from flickr, delicious, twitter, last.fm, and any other thing you’d like to hack into it. Not quite completely polished but very promising. You can check mine out here which still needs a bit of tweaking. You can get it for yourself from Chris’ site.
Nov 26, 2006
So I’m back from Mexico. I think I left my heart behind. I’m still processing all the events since every day was so packed, but the impact of building a home for a local family, bringing food out to a squatters camp, hanging out with kids from the local orphanage seriously changes your view on life. Especially when you sit down to dissect the cost of doing all this.
The biggest shock is looking on one side of the highway and seeing ocean front properties fit for a king and on the other side homes constructed of plastic bags, cardboard and sticks for a struggling family.
Once I get back in the groove of things I’ll do a fuller post in the mean time I’ll be working on putting up some pics as they certainly speak louder than words.
Nov 17, 2006
Wow this drinking water advisory we have in effect right now is very reminiscent of Y2K. So many stores have a shortage on bottled water. On top of that everyone is in a foul mood since majority of coffee shops are all closed up since it takes water to brew coffee. I have heard that there are a few shops here and there that are making coffee with pre-boiled water.
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Nov 16, 2006
I was reminded today of just how strange life is. I found out another friend who recently came out of a long term relationship is now suddenly engaged to become married. This is the 3rd friend in the span of 2 months that has been through this experience.
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