WTF

Robert Otani, not “Roberto Tani”

Friday, September 26th, 2008

Back around 2002, I lost the domain name robertotani.com. It was about to expire, but in the back of my mind, I guessed that the odds of losing this domain name to another “Robert Otani” was pretty low, and ended up not paying attention to it.
It turned out that a feng shui consultant in San [...]

TextDrive (Joyent) Dissapointments

Thursday, February 14th, 2008

Last April, after one too many dissapointing experiences with Dreamhost, I switched my hosting provider to TextDrive. They were recommended by several highly-respected folks who were also their customers. Unfortunately, the service — now officially under an obscurely named product owned by Joyent — has taken a quick turn for the worse.
If you’re shopping around [...]

Great Book Idea

Wednesday, August 1st, 2007

Great ideas are often spawned over impromptu IM conversations.
During a recent conversation with former Yahoo! colleague, fellow raconteur, and soon-to-be author Dustin, we discussed the awesomeness of the idea for a technical pop-up book.
Said popup book would need to have at least one pop-up of… pop-up windows. It’s the kind of keen self-referential metaphysical reference [...]