Author: Marc

Emperor Norton

Our local casual Italian restaurant/pizza joint has great pizza and a strange name, "Emperor Norton". A name so odd deserves an explanation and it turns out to be a rather interesting story: Wikipedia: Emperor Norton Only in San...

General

Upgraded to WordPress 2.2

WordPress 2.2 was released while I was out of town. Upgrading was a snap - just did svn switch http://svn.automattic.com/wordpress/branches/2.2, resolved some conflicts in two files, went to the admin page and upgraded the...

General

Back in the USA

We're back from our 3 week trip to Amsterdam, Brussels, Brugges, Bath, London, and Paris. More to come soon, including lots of photos...

Books

Hyperion

During our recent Europe trip, I read the book Hyperion and really enjoyed it. The first in a series of 4 books (the others being The Fall of Hyperion, Endymion, and The Rise of Endymion), Hyperion is a science fiction novel set...

EuropeTravel

Day 5: Amsterdam/Hague/Delft

The Hague for the most part is a modern city and is not super interesting from a touristy point of view. We spent most of our time at a place called Madurodam which is a park with lots of impressively realistic miniature models...

EuropeTravel

Day 4: Amsterdam/Haarlem

Day 4 in Amsterdam and we made a day trip to the nearby town of Haarlem. Haarlem is a very laid back and relaxing place, especially when compared to the crowds in Amsterdam for Queen's Day. Highlights included a canal cruise, a...

EuropeTravel

Day 3: Amsterdam

The third day of our Europe trip and our third day in Amsterdam. We spent most of the day in Keukenhof - a place that could best be described as a "flower park". We took the tram to the Amsterdam Centraal station and then took a...