Friday, January 18, 2002

Hey, this is so cool! I was checking the referer rankings for my site (I know - it's a dirty habit, but everybody does it... right?). Normally this is a somber time for me because the only links to my site are from my site. Well, I guess there's a link from www.weblogs.com, but that's automatically generated, so it doesn't really count.

When I last checked, though, there were 2 hits from Robert Scoble! Here is the link to where he quotes me. Is this goofy or what?

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Tina and I ate at Ole Mexican Grille tonight. I had the pollo con mole enchilada (shredded chicken topped with enriched mild chocolate chili sauce) and Tina had the cochinita pibil (shredded pork braised with fresh orange, onions, chile chipotle, and tomatoes). Now, my favorite thing to eat at this restaurant is the chicken fajita nachos, but I saw this guy on the Food Network making a mole, and thought "that looks pretty cool..." Actually, I just looked it up (praise google!) - it was Ming Tsai. You may think it's weird for a Chinese guy to inspire someone to eat a Mexican classic dish, but the owner/chef of the place is Filipino, so... Well, I'm sure there's a point in there somewhere. Anyway, the restaurant is quite nice. The downside is that there's no alcohol (but they have another branch in Inman Square that does serve alcohol). The upside of the downside is that dinner for two is only $25.

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I'm starting a list of movies I've enjoyed. Very preliminary! (I'm just working on links to The Internet Movie Database right now - later I'll fill in some commentary. This is so much fun!)

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Danger in the Philippines

Business visitors to the Philippines need to exercise extreme care, particularly if travelling to the south.

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I'm starting a list of restaurants that I've enjoyed.

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Dave Winer
Lance Knobel started a Radio weblog which he thinks of as a commonplace book. Commonplace books arose in the renaissance as a means for learned men to record quotations or observations that seemed important to them. I came across the idea when reading about the architect Leon Battista Alberti, who kept an apparently extraordinary commonplace book. Sounds like a weblog to me!

I like this!

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Officials: Bioterror would challenge health facilities

According to Dr. Tara O'Toole, deputy director of the Johns Hopkins Center for Civilian Biodefense Studies, the big problem is not beds as everyone seems to suppose — it is staff.

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