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15 February 2008 @ 10am

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13 February 2008 @ 12pm

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Starbucks: an observation

An interesting Starbucks tidbit from a vegan’s perspective…Female baristas almost always wipe the milk steamer with a rag before steaming soy milk. Male baristas, on the other hand, only do this about half of the time I’ve observed. The stats are fairly similar for washing out the metallic milk pitchers before switching from milk to soy milk, although most Starbucks use different pitchers.I’ll still drink the coffee either way, but I know vegans with a more strict policy on dairy who would have a problem with this. It’s a fairly easy thing to add to the training program.I hope that the Starbucks shutdown will include retraining on milk vs. soy milk preparation.


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12 February 2008 @ 6pm

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More than Twitter

The great thing about Chyrp is that I can go past 140 characters. I am treating this site a bit more like Twitter than I am like a full-length blog, so I don’t expect to see long posts here.As soon as the RSS module is released for Chyrp, I will be aggregating Twitter and Flickr here, and probably my open source blog entries, too.


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10 February 2008 @ 11am

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Pho Green Papaya

Pho Green PapayaAmazing Vietnamese food in Portland, many vegan options.


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10 February 2008 @ 7am

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10 February 2008 @ 6am

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Advice on Chyrp

If you’re considering a move to Chyrp, especially if you’re currently using Tumblr and want to self-host, I’d recommend that you wait just a bit longer. Chyrp is going through a period of rapid updates. Since I made the move to Chyrp on February 6th, there have already been several releases with various new features and bug fixes. Keeping up with new releases has been problematic for me not only due to the amount of time it takes to migrate a site (and re-add code changes for my theme), but also running into migration bugs along the way.The last upgrade was especially problematic (v1.1.3.1). I had a problem accessing the database and all of the ‘Feathers’ that allow for various posting types – pictures, sounds, links, text quotes, places, etc. broke as the author of these Feathers hasn’t updated them yet.Chyrp is going to be a very popular open source lifestream platform, it’s just not the best time for large-scale adoption. Give it a few weeks.NOTE: I am still a big fan of WordPress, and am using it for a number of projects. I just think that Chyrp is going to be a better platform for a personal site that’s somewhere between Twitter and a full Blog.


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10 February 2008 @ 6am

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Back from Napa

I’m back home from Open Source Think Tank 2008 in Napa, California. The event was great. As it ran through Saturday, I am feeling a bit cheated out a weekend right now – lots to do in just 24 hours before the work week starts up again.


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6 February 2008 @ 10pm

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Moving to Chyrp

Rinzai.com has gone through a number of technology transitions since its launch in the mid-90s. From many years of hand-coding to WordPress to Apple’s iWeb and now to Chyrp. Please check back for more content as I am in the process of migrating the site.


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1 June 2007 @ 5pm

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Upgraded to WordPress 2.2

I was finally able to upgrade rinzai.com to WordPress 2.2 today. I ran into a few small problems with outdated plugins, but the entire upgrade process took less than an hour. The primary reason for the upgrade was the Twitter Tools plugin from Alex King, which will allow me to auto post tweets to my blog in a daily archive. Many thanks to Brian Cors for the recommendation.


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31 May 2007 @ 8am

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Bar Camp

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DemoCamp Portland 2 is coming!

DemoCamp Portland 2
Monday night, July 23rd, 2007 @ CubeSpace
Rapid-fire technology demos (and networking), no PowerPoint slides!

The event (as it stands right now) will include two hours of networking and one hour of demos from 7-10pm. This includes six demos. Based on sponsorships, we may offer a catered dinner (Nicholas’ anyone?).

Please edit the wiki and add yourself as an attendee and/or any demo ideas for the event.

See you there!


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