I saw the video for Eminem’s new single, Without Me, on MTV a couple times. It’s been stuck in my head ever since. It doesn’t help that the tempo of the song is about the same as a brisk walk and its heavy downbeats make it feel like a march. Yes, the […]
I’m flying to Chicago in the middle of next week and staying there through the weekend. I’ve already updated my Visor Edge by adding Chicago to Zagat’s and Vindigo. If anyone has any advice, please send it along.
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My favorite bit of cyber-etiquette that never caught is “NRN”. I’d trade in “LOL”, “TTFN”, “AFAIK”, “IMHO”, “:)”, and all those other abbreviations for this one. “NRN” is short for “No response necessary”. Putting at the bottom of an e-mail means “You don’t have to reply to this e-mail. In fact, I’d prefer you didn’t […]
I work at an office out in the suburbs. I counter-commute via train everyday from my apartment in the South End of Boston. The train I usually take gets me into work around 9:45. After a quick check of my e-mail and voicemail, I like to have a bowl of Raisin Bran. […]
An e-mail arrived from Nabeel this morning:
I was watching a Simpson’s rerun, the one where Homer divides the town because he doesn’t like the new [area code] and 10 digit dialing. At the beginning there’s a tangent about a badger that’s moved into the dog’s house, and Lisa goes online to www.whatbadgerseat.com to find […]
Enjoying unstructured social time is something the Europeans have got better handle on than we do. When I was walking through Vondelpark in Amsterdam, I noticed the groups of locals who had gathered to chat with each other, get a little fresh air, eat a little food, and generally relax. This inspired me […]
Here’s what my web hosting provider had to say:
Thank you for informing us of this. It happens all of the time where spammers and hackers spider sites looking for an exploitable version of formmail to send out SPAM. As long as you have the newest version of formmail.pl from Matts Script Archive or […]
Since I’ve only had this site up for a few days, I still have fun looking at the access logs to see who is visiting. While perusing, I noticed a series of entries that looks like this:
65.239.144.231 - - [20/Jul/2002:23:32:27 -0500] “POST /cgi-bin/formmail.pl HTTP/1.0″ 404 - “http://MATTHEWSIM.COM/contact.htm” “Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 95)”
The other […]
We all know of Amsterdam’s policies of legalized prostitution and soft drug use. They take a socially objectionable activity and nudge it in a direction that makes it less so. Less well know is that they’ve applied this attitude to men’s propensity for pissing on the street. They’ve scattered bare-bones outdoor urinals […]
Another stop on the way back from the Summer Outing was at the small town of Shelburne Falls, home of the Bridge of Flowers. In 1929, the town converted an abandoned 400-foot long trolley bridge into a flower garden.
A much cooler sight, however, is across the street. At the end of the last […]
On our way back from the MathWorks summer outing, we stopped at MASS MoCA, the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art. This museum opened in a renovated mill complex in 1999. Thanks to its industrial past, it has some gigantic, unobstructed rooms. It doesn’t have a permanent collection, so its content is always […]
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While I was poking around looking for comparisons of the different weblogging engines (you’ll noticed I settled on Movable Type), I saw a new trick. As usual, I was doing a Google search to find information. When I clicked on one of the links that Google found, my search terms were automatically highlighted […]
I feel a little embarassed to be jumping on the weblogging bandwagon so late. Everybody and his mother already has one. Here we go anyhow.
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