• Response to Trams, Cable Cars, Electric Ferries: How Cities Are Rethinking Transit

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    Urban transportation is central to the effort to slow climate change. It can’t be done by just switching to electric cars. Several cities are starting to electrify mass transit.
    It's really great to see how varied the methods of transport they're installing are. The photos are also really great.

    Yokohama trialed some fully electric buses recently, but they found trouble with the hills and battery life. I think it was as these were retrofitted buses using 3-old Nissan Leaf batteries. I hope they switch the fleet over to electric asap though, as the noise and fumes at the bus centers are horrible.

    β€œIt has become a reasonable position to advocate for less space for cars,” said Felix Creutzig, a transportation specialist at the Mercator Research Center in Berlin. β€œTen years ago, it was not even allowed to be said. But now you can say it.”

    My favorite quote and I am happy this is becoming the case. Felix, welcome to The War on Cars.

  • Response to Get Lost on the Web

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    But even after that era, as search engines started to become a reliable and powerful way to navigate the wealth of content on the growing Web, links still dominated our exploration. Following a link from a resource that was linked to by somebody you know carried the weight of a β€œweb of trust”, and you’d quickly come to learn whose links were consistently valuable and on what subjects. They also provided a sense of community and interconnectivity that paralleled the organic, chaotic networks of acquaintances people form out in the real world.
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    The net result is that Internet users use fewer different websites today than they did 20 years ago, and spend most of their β€œWeb” time in app versions of websites [..] Truly exploring the Web now requires extra effort, like exercising an underused muscle.
    This article by Dan articulates perfectly what I was feeling when browsing blogs on the Wayback Machine earlier.Β 

  • Checkin to ζΉ˜ε—ε°ε…¬εœ’

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    in Fujisawa, Kanagawa, Japan
    Post park ice cream
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    Still on a kick browsing the wayback machine blogs. They were so good. Each one unique. Each one full of personality – even the blogger blogs. So much more than a profile Twitter/Insta.
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    Seeing that Jeremy has been updating his blog for 20 years is a huge inspiration.

    My online home has moved a number of times over the years. My first blog was around 2003 on a friend's domain in high school (it's up on the Wayback Machine !!).

    My first blog. Wish I kept a screengrab of that Cocoa Gui.


    My second blog I kept for around 5 years. It mostly chronicled my college life and my year studying abroad in Tokyo in 2007 - 2008. If I recall correctly, my "Moblog" was powered by sending emails from my Japanese-flip phone to Flickr.

    I miss this old site. I wonder if I have the data anywhere.


    This blog has been around for a couple of years now. I hope I can continue it for another 20 years (at least).
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