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Tokyo, 2010.04.28

I've been working with an enterprising young man on building the forthcoming Caritas blog for us.

Along the way I learned an interesting webserver trick that lets me mask real URL values with search-engine friendly URL's that are also human-readable. As of tonight my site has fancy URL's that describe the content rather than simply showing a computer tag like "?0164".

Three good things that happened today:

1. Recovered from some bad news yesterday

2. Resigned myself to just getting over Kenny's spills and renting a steam cleaner

3. Found an interesting bug in the iPhone's web interface

rand()m quote

I'm constantly amazed at how difficult it is to break free of the straitjacket of the immediately urgent.

—michael werneburg