http://www.willlaw.org/blog will's blog about cyclo-cross and being a cool vegan in the san francisco bay area Sat, 01 Nov 2008 18:18:53 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Andy Allan's cycle route oriented rendering of Open Street Map has been covering San Francisco for the past few weeks and its progress is coming along nicely: p.s. get involved here http://www.willlaw.org/blog/diy/open-cycle-map-is-coming-along/ Flickr has begun integrating Open Street Map map data into their world map feature. It turns out that the data that Yahoo! Maps uses for Beijing is not very rich, so it would seem that Flickr looked to Open Street Map to improve their offering. The funny thing is, according ... http://www.willlaw.org/blog/tech/flickr-integrates-open-street-map-data-for-beijing/ It was Eva's birthday on Saturday and she celebrated with a potluck. Her chosen theme was "Celebrity favorites". Or, less confusingly, the favorite food of celebrities. I decided to go with Barbara Streisand's favorite, which is apparently, chocolate blackout cake. It's worth noting that there are only two ... http://www.willlaw.org/blog/food/barbara-streisand-has-good-tastes/ I purchased a laptop a few months ago and have become more concerned with boot time since it is not on 24/7 like my desktop was. There are a number of guides around that explain how to speed up the time it takes to boot up in Ubuntu/Linux. ... http://www.willlaw.org/blog/tech/speeding-up-ubuntulinux-boot-time-a-different-approach/ First of all, there are many types of pancakes out there but this post only concerns american pancakes. No crepe pans, or scotch pancake griddles around here. I've been using the pancake recipe from the Joy of Cooking for some time now. The recipe is veganized by replacing the ... http://www.willlaw.org/blog/food/the-best-vegan-pancake-recipe/ So I just realised that amarok has a little documented feature that scrobbles your iPod history to last.fm. I am kinda excited about this as I listen to more, and also different, music on my ipod than I do on the computer. The only kind of annoying thing, which is ... http://www.willlaw.org/blog/tech/scrobbling-ipod-statistics-with-amarok/ The, as yet still nameless, batch#5 is now in bottles: #6 (more on this later) is about to finish primary fermentation. http://www.willlaw.org/blog/brewing/5-is-in-bottles/ So this is as much for my future reference as anything else but I decided it would be smart to start keeping a record of my beer brews. I've already started to forget some of the earlier batches we did and for a while recently Jesse and I were ... http://www.willlaw.org/blog/brewing/the-start-of-brew-log/ I always forget you can still get sunburnt even when you're cold and it's not really sunny. it's also amazing how many different places you can burn even when you're wearing longs pants, long sleeves and have long hair. Face, check. Ears, check. Hands, check. Wrists, ... http://www.willlaw.org/blog/uncategorized/perplexed/ Jesse, Kellen and I brewed a batch of beer yesterday. This one is a pale ale (although, as you can see in the video, it's coming out pretty dark) brewed with cascade hops for bittering and finishing and american ale yeast is providing the fermentation. As you can ... http://www.willlaw.org/blog/brewing/homebrew-3/