As part of my grudging admission of defeat in the debate over whether this site is a blog (as it turns out, it is), I am opening up the floor and allowing visitors to post comments. This is an experiment only partially motivated by my desire to increase value for shareholders. I hope all three […]

Since I first started monitoring traffic reports for this website, I have been fascinated and confused by the kinds of visitors it attracts. The Middle East and South Asia seem to be disproportionately represented, with India, the UAE, Iran, Pakistan, and Saudi Arabia all taking spots on the All-Time Top 20 Countries List. Uruguay makes […]

I’ve come across a site called BlogShares, a sort of stock market game for blogs. I have registered brezhnev.net there in the hopes that I will be able to ride this site’s virtual IPO to unimaginable virtual riches. Of course, I am at the mercy of the market; valuation is determined by the number of […]

I have noticed, since turning this site into something resembling (but still not being) a blog, that people are much more demanding of things like updates. Unfortunately, while the site’s design was originally intended to make it easy to update, I quickly realised that anything more complicated than adding a simple post was far […]

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It’s now late April, which makes this the largest gap in updating in some time. In order to make it seem somewhat worthwhile, I have made public a general re-design of the site I did a while back. It’s hardly wonderful, but I was getting tired of the old look. […]

One of my neighbours enjoys shouting from her balcony. It always sounds like this or this. Sometimes it is louder, sometimes quieter. She has started as early as 5 am, and sometimes goes well into the night. At around 9:30pm today, she started singing, which was preferable to the shouting. […]

Beijing was rather polluted today. Inspired by this, I have delved into differences between pollution ratings in two large Chinese cities (Hong Kong and Beijing). My delving was not very rigorous — no rigour involved, really — and should not be relied on for anything other than general amusement.
This week, I baked:

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I am not updating this website because I am hard at work, as this picture illustrates:

Also, some work has been done on non-public parts of this site that may yet become public.

Inuktitut phrase of the day: Qimuksikkuurumavunga. (”I want to go by dogteam.”)
The New Year brings with it the possibility of enhancements to this page — a foolish endeavour, admittedly, as the audience of this page is almost certainly exactly one (1). That is to say, I am making this page for my own amusement, […]

I have found my keys!