Farewell Facebook

My writing surges up and down a sine wave. I have years when I clutter the calendar with posts and years when the lights are still on but the stage sits empty. It’s now April and my last post went up at the end of August, so you might think it’s been another dry year.…

21st Century Travel: Intermezzo

(See other articles in this series in the Travel section.) I've been on the road again, and the next couple of posts in this series will be longer and more complicated. They're partly done, and I've also been writing down some of my impressions of walking the Inca Trail to Machu Picchu. I'll be more…

Hiatus

While I’ve been fairly active on Twitter, I haven’t posted anything on my website since last Fall but an essay I’d actually written… last Fall. My neck and back have continued to hurt, and I’ve had to avoid spending more than the least possible time sitting at a computer or even sitting and writing by…

jeff on the go

i was sure there must be such a thing, and a moment's search found wptouch, a plugin which makes a wordpress site (like this) look beautiful on iphones, android devices, blackberries, etc. not just beautiful, but functional. i'm really impressed with how it feels like a native app on the iphone, with integration with other…

photos moved to flickr

big step forward! after months of slowly uploading my old photo galleries, one set at a time, they've finally all been transfered to flickr. that's a big chunk of my old site moved to its new home (and, given intervening circumstances, probably all of the master plan i'll accomplish for quite some time). try it!:…