Here’s a bit of housekeeping: I’ve added a new feature to the blog (actually, “feature” is a bit overblown; let’s just say a little widget), in the right-hand margin underneath the latest Moblog post. Basically, it’s a little running list of links I’ve found interesting or worthy of linking to. (There’s nothing much there yet, but give it time).
I pretty much stole the idea from Jason Kottke‘s Remaindered Links sidebar, though in my feeble defense, I’ve been wanting to do something like this ever since I saw Anita Rowland‘s “Daily Crawl,” a long constantly updated list of sites she’s reading (in her left sidebar). (Here’s serendipity for you: just now I checked Anita’s site and see that she just “crawled” me, and I’m listed next to kottke.org!)
I’ve never been much of a “link and run” blogger, but I do come across some things I feel like sharing in case they haven’t “made the rounds.” This new widget allows me to do that without bogging down the main content portion with lots of tiny links all over the place.
(I’ve usurped the name “Of Momentary Interest,” which was my title for non-Japan blogs I read, for this new widget, and renamed the section formerly known as “Of Momentary Interest” the boring but descriptive “Non-Japan Reads.”)
the daily crawl list (Matt Kingston wrote the code for it) is created by a script that runs on my server every hour, comparing my list of weblogs against weblogs.com changes.xml. It’s my blogroll, in effect. So you and kottke are next to each other because you both pinged in the past three hours (because weblogs.com has three hours worth of data)
oh I see, I’ve completely had the wrong idea about that, I always just assumed it was a running list of the sites you were visiting and somehow it was updating as you surfed 🙂 oh well, I guess then I have no defense.
You’re right! He does look like a yakuza! I sure hope your father-in-law is nice to you. His choice of t-shirts tells me he is a ‘fun-loving guy’ and not a bad guy.