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Our hibiscus is blooming gloriously, and our dahlias are doing well despite having been planted later in the year than was ideal. I just posted some photos of the flowers in my flickr site, in a new category just for flowers, which you can reach by clicking here.

Since I’m intimately involved with two different online businesses, I occasionally encounter some well-meaning person who is reluctant–or refuses–to use their credit card to make purchases online. Apparently they’re concerned that their card information will somehow be hijacked and don’t quite understand the implications of SSL and the other measures that online businesses use to [...]

I inadvertently saved the best for last, it seems. Sakura Mist is really good.

It’s lightly carbonated and not terribly sweet. (If I’m deciphering the label correctly, it has less than half of the sugar of most American sodas.) It has a very subtle flavor. I think it’s cherry flavored in that nebulous way that artificial [...]

One has to laugh at some of the juxtapositions that the Google AdWords AI creates sometimes. There’s an article here in today’s online New York Times about the scientist who was apparently behind the letters laden with a toxic substance whose name I’d rather not let search engines find in my blog. In a sidebar [...]

There’s a video at a site called The Story of Stuff which everyone should watch. It’ll consume 20 minutes of your precious time but do it anyway. To quote the introductory paragraph on the site, “It’ll teach you something, it’ll make you laugh, and it just may change the way you look at all the [...]

It’s hot today (which is not news–it’s been hot for weeks) so I thought I’d crack open a nice blue Pepsi.

I assume the name is a reference to the mixed drink, but there’s no alcohol in it. It’s quite good. It tastes like pineapple, mostly; I don’t really notice the lemon. It doesn’t take like [...]

I don’t think that it’s actually called Gooey Fanta, but I can’t read Japanese so I don’t know what its real name is. In any case, I tried the orange flavored Fanta today.

Notice the little pictures of oranges and grapes shaking cans. It was impressed upon me that you have to shake this stuff vigorously [...]

Just got back from a trip downtown in the heat, so I thought I’d crack a cool beverage from Japan. I decided to try Capsela first.

You’ll note that the label makes a point of mentioning its vitamin content. The bottle is sort of capsule-shaped also. This might explain why it reminds me faintly of some [...]

I just received something wonderful from our dear friend Rafael: a selection of unusual soft drinks from Japan:

Yes, that really is blue Pepsi there on the left, and a pink Canada Dry product. I’ll post descriptions of each as I try them over the coming days.

I used to think of Belkin as an above-average source of stuff for computers like cables and adapters and stuff. They may or may not be that, but now I have no reason to think that they support their products any better than anyone else who sells Chinese cables and adapters and stuff. I have [...]