The Eastern Edge

This website, and this blog in particular, may have appeared mostly abandoned over the last year or so. However, if you could see behind the public face it has actually come to look at lot like a digital snapshot of whatever part of my brain stores all… more »

UPDATE: Make that 2 to 3 weeks from next Saturday! That's when they will finally get around to even picking up my damn computer! At least I have a pick-up date. If only I'd known nvidia7800go+Dell was a ticking time bomb. Hindsight is 20/20. Next ti… more »

If you've been here in the last little while, you may have noticed a few things have been removed. It seems that I failed to realize that digital breadcrumbs, however small, don't always lead back to the source and can sometimes go down paths you neve… more »

...there's probably a blog entry about it somewhere. While preparing some new tweaks and updates for the Japanese blog and column pages, I went rummaging through old blog posts and realized that 3 years ago this week I began my mission to quit smoking… more »

I saw a news item today that I just can't seem to get over. At first I found it tragic, but right after I read to the end I suddenly felt disgusted.It is shocking to me how oblivious people sometimes are to the contradictions in human empathy. In f… more »

I just took the Joker's personality test and ranked a "Belly Buster." Not bad. I didn't make the elite "A scream" rank, but I'm a long way from a pathetic "mime" at least. Yup, you guess it, I saw the The Dark Knight last night at the theater, compl… more »

The man who opened the door to Major League Baseball for Japanese players, Hideo Nomo, announced today on his official website that he is retiring.Every Japanese player in the major leagues should be tipping their caps to Nomo today. You were… more »

Looks like all the server side problems have been fixed. Now things might be weird here for a day or two while I upgrade, fiddle around, tweak, break, fix, and fiddle some more until I get this thing set up the way I want. I'm workin' on it! more »

Well, my blog problem has been fixed... sort of.Although problems appear to be fixed on this blog, I did another little test with a new install, with a new database, in a new directory. It came out a mess with the same errors this blog had but worse… more »

I wonder if this is an "Expected warning" or an "Unexpected warning", like the "Unexpected error" it is replacing?The worst part is that the problem only shows on-screen in Internet Explorer. So, if you're seeing this in Opera or Mozilla you probabl… more »

I fixed one glitch only to have new ones I have no control over crop up. Other than this site dropping off-line and coming back up again (if you're reading this I assume it's up), this blog's database seems to have lost its mind. Posts can only be viewe… more »

I had a rant I wrote a couple days ago that was all ready for posting today. Then I saw the news... In honor of George Carlin, who wouldn't give a flying shit anyway, I'm going to put a lid on my bullshit for a few days and go fire up some of his s… more »

I just thought nobody loved me, but it turns out there is a problem with my email notifications after all.Someone left a comment in response to my post about the Fulbright Scholarship a while back and for some reason I'm just seeing it now.The pers… more »

I haven’t got a heck of a lot done on the website, although I am working on stuff.But I have done a lot of writing and editing content for the Gottsupedia - editing stuff from wiki, writing original content and so on. Most of the stuff is on Japanese… more »