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Today have been organizing bookmarks.  In the process I’ve been thinking about bookmark categories and folder names.  I realize how similar this is to the Personal Information Logos stuff I’ve developed in terms of things like personal data hierarchy and naming schemas.  Now, again with bookmarks, its clear that there needs to exist a schema.…

  Unfortunately the video is of very poor quality, probably having been copied from analog tv when the series (Taiga drama Yoshitsune) first aired. I love scenes where there is bright luminiscence as here which evokes a bright dawn or sunset outside. What is interesting is that you can see, based on the reflection and…

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NYT is reporting that there is some tension occurring between Japan and the US. One aide to Prime Minister Abe openly criticized the US in a recent online video. The US has criticized Abe’s visit to the shrine dedicated to war dead including some high-level people who were convicted of war crimes. On the one…

Xinjiang, Altay, China

One thing sorely lacking from the default Android shell is command history.  Here is a trick to enhance the Android shell: 1. Remount /system in read/write mode to allow changes: mount -o remount,rw /system 2. Edit /etc/profile. Mine contains: export PATH=/data/bin:$PATH HOME=/sdcard HISTFILE=~/.bash_history use_color=true alias ls=’busybox ls –color=auto’ alias rm=’rm -i’ alias cp=’cp -i’ alias…

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I just read an essay/article Unaffordable cities: this criminal lack of housing is a global scandal. What is truly scandalous is not the fact that market forces are causing scarcity in certain markets due to increased demand, it is the sheer stupidity of the author. How can someone write a sentence like above seriously, at…