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So I programmed a page to randomly generate names of Japanese restaurants. It’s pretty cool, check it out here: Japanese Restaurant Name Generator. Not only does it come up with randomized names, but you can even vote on them So far it’s been a fun quick little project to give me more practice incorporating 3rd [...]

If your goal is to become a sculptor, it’s worth your while to try chiseling a wheel out of stone. Just for practice, you know. Reinventing the wheel isn’t always a bad thing. It gives you a lot of insight and skill in an area you’re starting out in. I believe that for an Autodidact, [...]

Superstition and civilization have always been sibling rivals, maturing together through the millenia while eying each other warily. In olden times, mankind created gods and heroes to explain the phenomena they couldn’t understand. That is the underlying thread beneath all superstition: lack of understanding. The strongest superstitions, the ones etched most deeply into the collective [...]

I think Glowing Face Man has long been due for a renaming; when I started the blog years ago, I had no idea how many articles I’d end up writing here, or how popular the blog would be. The new domain name is shorter, easier to remember, and a lot less likely to get mistaken [...]

It’s been a few months now since I made the transition from Blogspot to WordPress, and I’m a happy camper. Having blogged from Blogspot for a long time, I’m in a strong position to compare the two writing platforms. Price The big advantage of blogspot is, it’s totally free. Of course, WP is free as [...]

Xamuel.com now has forums You can check them out here. It took a lot of work and I’m not even half finished yet. There are still a ton more features to add. One of the main reasons for going to forums was, I was never quite satisfied with how blog comments work. They work alright [...]

Finally, after weeks of procrastination, I’m happy to announce major changes over on The Connections Project: contributors can now register and login, which means that due credit will now be given I put off setting up login/register support because I was kind of dreading it. Having never programmed that from scratch over the HTTP protocol, [...]

Hello I am launching a free newsletter, in which I’ll publish some exclusive content once every month or two. I decided to do this as a way to reward my long-term readers, giving them an “inside scoop” beyond what the general public has access to, as well as providing a way for me to better [...]

Blogspot doesn’t provide any way to get a static frontpage. I figured out a way to do it by editing the template. Of course, now that I’ve moved to WordPress where this feature is built-in, I no longer have to use my own trick. But I figure it’ll be useful to anyone who still uses [...]

My biggest problem making conversation was I’d run out of things to say. And then, to make matters worse, I’d consciously try to come up with something. The universal law of conversation is spontaneity: if you think about what you’re gonna say before the words come out of your mouth, they’re guaranteed to sound awkward. [...]