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Welcome to www.hollenback.net: A Lot of Content, A Little Bit of Style!

Updates

• 09/27/07: I've written a big new article I'm calling Big City Baby. This also helps explain why I haven't updated this site much in the last few months.
• 11/30/06: I finally updated my wiki software! Notice the pretty new page style and hopefully some more updates very soon.
• Thinking of staying at the Mirror Lake Inn in Lake Placid? Think again!
• 11/10/05: So what's going on with this wiki? Well, not much. It is still the repository for all things hollenback-o-riffic. However, I'm not making too many other changes (well, I do try to update the NewYorkNotes from time to time). Right now a lot of my online 'fun-time' continues to revolve around flickr, particularly since Meghan loaned me a digital camera. I will try to update this wiki from time to time.
• 06/23/05: Yes I know I'm still using phpwiki. Inertia is a powerful thing. Actually I figured out an ugly workaround to the page load failures that involves an echo command and suppressing all the phpwiki error output. Plus I used mediawiki some more and decided it was too structured for my tastes. Thus, it looks like I will be using good old phpwiki for a while longer. Also, have you looked at my flickr pictures yet?
• 04/28/05: Apologizes for going back to the lame phpwiki default theme. I've got an intermittent problem where the front page doesn't load all the way, and it seems like it is a little less likely to happen with this theme. The real answer is I need to get MediaWiki installed.
• 04/08/05: I've upgraded my wiki software to Phpwiki 1.3.11rc3. Please let me know if you see any problems. Hopefully I will be able to re-enable anonymous edits because this version has some anti-spam features.
• 03/21/05: The moment I feared has arrived: spammers started scribbling all over my site and adding hundreds of bogus 'XANAX', 'VALIUM', and 'V1@GRA' pages. Thus I have no choice but to lock down the site. Technically you can still edit if you have a username and password, but that's only me right now. Hopefully I will work out some anti-spam procedures so I can turn anonymous editing back on. Anonymous edits are one of the most enjoyable aspects of a wiki - I love it when people leave little random notes on my website. I didn't even really mind it when I was getting a spam page once a week or so - I could easily delete them. However, I don't have the time to delete hundreds (or thousands!) of spam pages from my site every day.

New York Update

• Renee and I have spent the last year or so in the most important city in the world, New York. You might enjoy my notes about the experience.
• We survived the blackout of 2003!

General Interest

• PictureAlbum
• Phil's Resume or Renee's Resume
• SilverFox
• MixCds
• RandomCrapola
• MyLinks (superceded by del.icio.us)
• AxMen - I didn't make this one up!
• Bored with unemployment? Maybe you should think about FindingAJob!
  Or, you could just play biznatch, Steve Ocepek's revolutionary new card game!
• Three great music blogs.
• How to survive having a baby in the city.

Geek Stuff

• MyArticles - articles I've written for publication
• CantennaExperiment or LifterExperiment
• SystemStats
• TechObservations
• OneTrueEditor or TheOtherTrueEditor
• HelpfulMuttHints
• call2sym
• WristMac
• Linux on the Toshiba Portege 610CT or the Fujitsu N3010 Lifebook
• Notes on setting up my Mac PowerBook
• Dial phone numbers in SkypeOut directly from your Mac Address Book.
• iLo vs. IPMI - 15 minute comparison of two different remote server management mechanisms.
• Some tips on converting movies taken with Lumix cameras.
• How to back up your amazon wishlist to a text file.

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Since wabi-sabi represents a comprehensive Japanese world view or aesthetic system, it is difficult to explain precisely in western terms. According to Leonard Koren, wabi-sabi is the most conspicuous and characteristic feature of what we think of as traditional Japanese beauty and it "occupies roughly the same position in the Japanese pantheon of aesthetic values as do the Greek ideals of beauty and perfection in the West."

"Wabi-sabi is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete.

"It is the beauty of things modest and humble.

"It is the beauty of things unconventional."

(quoted from "WABI-SABI: FOR ARTISTS,DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS," 1994, Leonard Koren)

The concepts of wabi-sabi correlate with the concepts of Zen Buddhism, as the first Japanese involved with wabi-sabi were tea masters, priests, and monks who practiced Zen. Zen Buddhism originated in India, traveled to China in the 6th century, and was first introduced in Japan around the 12th century. Zen emphasizes "direct, intuitive insight into transcendental truth beyond all intellectual conception." At the core of wabi- sabi is the importance of transcending ways of looking and thinking about things/existence.

• All things are impermanent
• All things are imperfect
• All things are incomplete

(also taken from WABI-SABI: FOR ARTISTS,DESIGNERS, POETS & PHILOSOPHERS, 1994, Leonard Koren):

Material characteristics of wabi-sabi:

• suggestion of natural process
• irregular
• intimate
• unpretentious
• earthy
• simple

For more about wabi-sabi, see http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?WabiSabi.

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