Yes, this site is rather ugly at the moment. That should change soon.
http://harpers.org/media/slideshow/annot/2008-03/index.html There is an great feature in this month's Harper's Magazine on Google's Data Centre plans for a small community on the banks of the Columbia River in Oregon. I think its really easy to see technology as something invisible: after all, thats why Google searches, Gmail and YouTube are so popular. But this technology is not really invisible. It needs power. The brain power is more apparent: Google is actively expanding and a huge number of "star engineers" have joined its ranks. The less apparent, oft-neglected power is electricity. While it may be out-of-sight (and off-site) for most of...
This blog is currently undergoing transformation. Change colours.
I do realise I spend more time blogging about blogging, than actually blogging. I spent a couple hours moving away from WordPress, which was the blogging software this site has used since its inception a couple years ago. I moved to Chyrp, a new lightweight blogging engine written in PHP. Admittedly, some of this is the thrill of the new. I do like to be current. And some of this was procrastination from other tasks at hand. I had become frustrated with WordPress. That's not to say its not very powerful, nor that I wouldn't still recommend it to clients...
http://www.americans-away-from-home.com/ A website written by an American expat following the course of the U.S. Presidential Primaries.
