No more lines…
Despite the colder weather this morning I decided to ride the bike in again. There were pretty stiff cross winds most of the way into work which didn’t make it the most pleasant of journeys. Makes me wonder when the spring weather will get here. Many of the gas stations along the way were still [...]
SimplePie for RSS
I have been working a fair amount with parsing RSS feeds for a personal project. I tried a few different PHP libraries but the easiest to use was SimplePie. It worked as expected pretty much right out off the bat and made it easy to go through feeds getting the items. MagpieRSS is also popular [...]
Childrens video explaining nuclear situation
I came across this video explaining the nuclear situation in Fukushima. It fairly accurate and presented in such a way that children can get some sort of grasp about what is going on. It could probably also be of use to those who don’t really understand how nuclear works and why the threat level is [...]
Things slightly improving in Tokyo
As more and more people seem to be fleeing to the West things appear to moving slowly back to normal in Tokyo. The stock at the local supermarkets seem to be slightly better than yesterday. In particular, fresh foods seem to be in reasonably good supply. In the late evening yesterday, though, a strong earthquake [...]
Fresh Bread
It seems weird to think of fresh bread as something special but in the bare-supermarket post-earthquake Tokyo it has become one. I am riding my bike in each day so I rolled by Andersen on the way in and they were opening late due to delayed deliveries. I did manage to go back at their [...]
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