Epistemographer

…yeah. So, not much to say at the moment. Heaps of coding, swamped with both Center work and outside projects. Oh, and I’m getting married in a week and a half. Hence, not so much with the blogging, even though I’d planned to make a spectacular re-entrance after a summer off[1].
Sigh.
Well, on the brighter side, [...]

_A short request, thrown out to the blogosphere:_
When I moved in with my somewhat-more-Jewishly-observant-than-I girlfriend (now fiancee), I started keeping a kosher kitchen. Needless to say, this has been quite an adjustment for a formerly bacon-frying, shrimp-barbecuing, agnostically secular Jew like myself, and I’ve decided to start a blog to chronicle my adventures as [...]

A few days ago, David Weinberger posted about something that’s afoot at the New York Times:

The NYTimes.com site is re-fashioning itself, launching in April. That’s what Robert Larson, director of product management and development of NYTimes.com, told me when I interviewed him for the issue of Release 1.0 that came out last week. (Here’s the [...]

A friend passed along a link to Yahoo!’s 10th birthday “Netrospective.” Great interface design, intriguing use of comments to both foster dialogue and actually collect some history – seems like a really great exhibit, though one thing left a bad taste in my mouth. I know they’re your competitors and all, Yahoo!, but really – [...]

So, I spent six years of my life getting trained to be part of a priesthood, and like any priesthood, mine is pretty particular about holding Supreme Knowledge close to its vest (after all, the only thing that makes members of a priesthood special is that they have ways of knowing stuff that others don’t). [...]

I’ve spent the past few weeks working on and off with others at the Center on a grant application to the IMLS. We’re proposing to build a package of interfaces and extensions to Firefox that will in essence stick our Scrapbook and Scribe programs into the browser itself (where more and more research is done).

With [...]

For as long as I can remember, I’ve had an uncomfortable relationship with sleep…to put it simply, I just don’t get tired when normal people seem to. That’s not to say that I don’t every get sleepy; I do, it’s just that it happens when the sun comes up, rather than when the sun sets. [...]

I called my mom tonight to watch the last few pitches of the NLCS game seven, and to watch the Cardinals win the pennant. She grew up in St. Louis, and had actually flown out to catch a game of the first Cards-Dodgers post-season series; as the last pitch was thrown, she murmured in joyous [...]

No time for a long post now, but I was just deciding which folder into which to sort a particular e-mail, and realized that the system of categorized folders I’d been using for the better part of a decade doesn’t seem to be working for me anymore. This actually seems to fit with a trend [...]

Slashdot just published an interview with Neal Stephenson, pretty much all of which is must-reading. Check out the whole thing, but one quote that particularly jumped out at me is his observation on bookstores, which seems to encapsulate many of my conclusions about video stores into a few lines:

There was a time maybe five years [...]