Maki is not a nameless cat: the home of Makiko Itoh.

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The newsfeed has moved (October 23, 2006)
Hi there! (September 01, 2006)
links for 2006-07-25 (July 25, 2006)
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links for 2006-07-21 (July 21, 2006)
links for 2006-07-15 (July 15, 2006)
links for 2006-07-12 (July 12, 2006)
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links for 2006-06-28 (June 28, 2006)
links for 2006-06-27 (June 27, 2006)
Who am I? (a purely indulgent post) (June 26, 2006)
links for 2006-06-21 (June 21, 2006)
links for 2006-06-20 (June 20, 2006)
Summer reading 1: So I finally read the Da Vinci Code (June 19, 2006)
links for 2006-06-19 (June 19, 2006)
links for 2006-05-30 (May 30, 2006)
I feel sexier (May 29, 2006)
links for 2006-05-28 (May 28, 2006)
links for 2006-05-27 (May 27, 2006)
links for 2006-05-25 (May 25, 2006)
links for 2006-05-23 (May 23, 2006)
links for 2006-05-14 (May 14, 2006)
links for 2006-05-09 (May 09, 2006)
Blogger solicitations (May 03, 2006)
Brain Balance (April 25, 2006)
The dilemma (April 05, 2006)
Get natural, baby. (March 07, 2006)
Trying to fix Disney (March 06, 2006)
Discovering great old music via (gulp) American Idol (February 26, 2006)
How appropriate (February 19, 2006)
Switzerland, the place to be for the Olympics (February 13, 2006)
Happiness is.... (February 12, 2006)
It's not just because she's a model (February 12, 2006)
Blogs as cross-communication tools (February 08, 2006)
Ben Roethlisberger, the Swiss QB (February 05, 2006)
Memes (January 31, 2006)
Movable Type and external editors (January 29, 2006)
Working as a host in a New York restaurant (January 27, 2006)
Four things (January 25, 2006)
Clearing tabs: cool book, iPod undies, and more (January 24, 2006)
Worst day of the year? (January 23, 2006)
Why we cancelled our Basecamp account (January 21, 2006)
Brits are just great (January 20, 2006)
A year in cities, plus a small village (January 13, 2006)
Amazing amateur anime (January 13, 2006)
Google Video restricts downloads by IP address (January 12, 2006)
Feeling smug (January 12, 2006)
Clearing tabs: Penguins, OSX, etc. (January 11, 2006)
Getting Things Done with a Feather Duster in hand (January 09, 2006)
Geisha teriyaki (January 04, 2006)
Akemashite Omedetou Gozaimasu (January 02, 2006)
Clearing tabs: Analyzing the Noughties mid-way through (December 31, 2005)
Clearing tabs: more 2005 lists, A Christmas Carol podcast, procrastination (December 28, 2005)
Movie reviews at The Casual Critic (December 27, 2005)
Clearing tabs: 2005 lists, Cryto-Kids!, eggnog cake, and more (December 27, 2005)
Clearing tabs: Domaine protection for pork pies, Holiday mishmash song, and more (December 24, 2005)
CPanel and DB::mysql problems (December 23, 2005)
My digital life, circa 2005 (December 21, 2005)
Clearing tabs: Ricky Gervais podcast, USPS nightmares, and more (December 19, 2005)
Sushi culture (December 18, 2005)
Cute, yet (December 16, 2005)
Her bright blue eyes and other things (December 15, 2005)
2005 web design trends in review (December 08, 2005)
lastn is broken in Typepad (December 08, 2005)
A Review of Narnia 1: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (December 07, 2005)
The 1.57% A9.com lure (December 02, 2005)
TV shows on iTunes (October 30, 2005)
An untended garden (October 28, 2005)
Tea and curry (July 12, 2005)
The Girl in the Café (June 29, 2005)
Serving the meat (June 21, 2005)
Rehauling CSS 101 (June 10, 2005)
Spring misery (June 02, 2005)
Musical Baton (May 18, 2005)
Weighted tags are about the data (May 08, 2005)
The chroniclers of our times (April 04, 2005)
Nagara-zoku (April 02, 2005)
Let there be cupcakes (March 23, 2005)
Not "in" (March 19, 2005)
Shorts for March 17, 2005 (March 17, 2005)
Shorts for March 14, 2005 (March 14, 2005)
Looking for the perfect ear (head) phones (March 14, 2005)
Shorts for March 13, 2005 (March 13, 2005)
Personal lines of restraint (March 13, 2005)
Shorts for March 11, 2005 (March 11, 2005)
No more separate sideblog (March 11, 2005)
Longing for real wirelessness (March 11, 2005)
Audio out on the Airport Express for video (March 06, 2005)
The mood or the face (March 05, 2005)
Oscar, the day after (February 28, 2005)
Transmit 3 and server-to-server transfers (February 26, 2005)
Back to basics (February 24, 2005)
Mouse Ears (October 13, 2004)
Gearing up for November (September 18, 2004)
Cotton candy (August 29, 2004)
Gmail invites again (August 28, 2004)
Quitter (August 28, 2004)
A pretty face is not enough (August 15, 2004)
Attention deficit (August 02, 2004)
Design is ephemeral (July 31, 2004)
Getting back in the groove (July 27, 2004)
I blame it on the elbow (July 05, 2004)
Flower interlude (June 16, 2004)
Branching out (May 30, 2004)
Bits (May 29, 2004)
Pixicon dingbat font (May 25, 2004)
Meandering from template design to feminine design (May 21, 2004)
Spotting weblogging systems through design (May 17, 2004)
Movable Type 3.0 Developer Edition (May 16, 2004)
Drop shadows everywhere you look (May 11, 2004)
Movable Type plugins I use (May 08, 2004)
Cry me a river with iTunes iMix (April 30, 2004)
Movable Type 3.0 beta site (April 25, 2004)
Kill Bill (April 25, 2004)
Hair (April 24, 2004)
Japanese Story (April 17, 2004)
Japanese questions (April 07, 2004)
Tomato (and other) seed sources (April 04, 2004)
The year of the tomato (April 03, 2004)
Exploiting !important CSS in Internet Explorer (April 01, 2004)
Just Hungry - not (April 01, 2004)
Redesign redux: CSS issues (March 30, 2004)
Takeout vs. home cooking (March 29, 2004)
Site redesign, spring 2004 (March 28, 2004)
pardon my dust (March 28, 2004)
Markdown (March 24, 2004)
great music, and friendship (March 24, 2004)
Long distance travel preparedness (March 20, 2004)
she may struggle in the kitchen... (March 16, 2004)
blogging dominated by right-wingers? (March 12, 2004)
... (March 11, 2004)
learning from the Japanese way: online code of conduct (March 11, 2004)
bow-tie wearing neanderthal man (March 09, 2004)
crme brle (March 09, 2004)
sinking to the depths (March 08, 2004)
oh, Martha (March 05, 2004)
designed by women, for women? (March 05, 2004)
the object of adoration (March 03, 2004)
ask...who? (March 03, 2004)
my sister in Haiti, circa 1980 (March 01, 2004)
chicks and pajama parties (March 01, 2004)
good bye to junk food TV (March 01, 2004)
joining the modern age (February 29, 2004)
my Oscar predictions (February 29, 2004)
more Lost in Translation (February 28, 2004)
in limbo (February 28, 2004)
and the winner is...the ordinary looking gal again (February 22, 2004)
rice king? cheese queen? (February 21, 2004)
songs about friendship (February 19, 2004)
Google is the new Webmonkey and my blog-network is the new Webdesign-L (February 17, 2004)
brute force design (February 16, 2004)
being an outsider, and Lost in Translation redux (February 16, 2004)
you know you've been living too long in Switzerland when... (February 15, 2004)
you always miss what you don't have (February 13, 2004)
back (February 13, 2004)
quote manager feature (February 11, 2004)
the curious legend of Mocmoc (February 10, 2004)
browsers, browsers everywhere and nary a minute to sleep. (February 10, 2004)
the mystery of "link free" (February 08, 2004)
creating a "printer-friendly version" on a Typepad site (February 06, 2004)
stages (February 06, 2004)
cutting-edge web design, sans Flash (February 02, 2004)
my world map (February 01, 2004)
doctors and patients in Japan (February 01, 2004)
Unison (January 31, 2004)
vivid music on a cold winter's night (January 30, 2004)
winter sunset (January 30, 2004)
japanese lullabies (January 28, 2004)
minor housekeeping (January 28, 2004)
R.I.P. Venus and the Eye (January 27, 2004)
the Apprentice (and other reality shows) (January 23, 2004)
my 2 cents (January 23, 2004)
your blogging mistakes and your feeds (January 20, 2004)
cafés vs. Starbuck's (January 17, 2004)
this is plus size? (January 16, 2004)
housekeeping (January 16, 2004)
me and my Cube (January 14, 2004)
Lost in Translation (January 13, 2004)
questions to ask your "web designer" before hiring (January 11, 2004)
Panther better late than never (January 11, 2004)
do you tell your family? (January 09, 2004)
Kurt Nilsen CD! (January 08, 2004)
iPod Mini and other Macworld Keynote stuff (January 06, 2004)
i hope his fingers fit. (January 06, 2004)
the decline of JavaScript and modern web design (January 06, 2004)
blogging etiquette (January 05, 2004)
favicon (January 03, 2004)
contemplating the iPod and iTunes Music Store (January 03, 2004)
let it snow, let it snow (January 02, 2004)
happy new year and omg the hobbit won! (January 01, 2004)
2003 best in TV on DVD (and on the air) (December 31, 2003)
2003 web design fashion trends in review (December 30, 2003)
when "J" was totally not cool (December 29, 2003)
on PCs and Macs, from the outside in (December 29, 2003)
and on a lighter note...World Idol! (December 27, 2003)
dolls, girls, women (December 27, 2003)
merry merry merry (December 24, 2003)
seasonal garb (December 23, 2003)
counter-balance (December 22, 2003)
oba-chan's pickled plums (December 21, 2003)
new ebook format? (December 19, 2003)
news on Narnia movie on the BBC (December 19, 2003)
a short christmas tale (December 19, 2003)
lord of the rings trilogy marathon premiere extravaganza report (December 17, 2003)
all i want for christmas... (December 15, 2003)
the huge divide. (December 14, 2003)
champagne wire chairs (December 12, 2003)
i don't need p*nis enlargement, honestly. (December 12, 2003)
i like smart people (December 09, 2003)
cool collaboration tool (December 08, 2003)
dir="rtl" lang="ar" (December 07, 2003)
influential women in web design (December 07, 2003)
argh! argh! (December 06, 2003)
the bottom line (December 05, 2003)
information overload (December 04, 2003)
gathering the news via RSS (December 03, 2003)
let us all give ourselves awards until we drop (December 03, 2003)
a handful of beautiful weblogs (December 03, 2003)
a picture is worth a thousand yööööööös (December 02, 2003)
oh my, oh my (December 01, 2003)
Fandom dating services (November 30, 2003)
just hungry (November 29, 2003)
the gender thing again, part xxx (November 28, 2003)
swiss trash. (November 28, 2003)
ripples of discontent (November 26, 2003)
eye candy (November 22, 2003)
a case for balkanizing software (November 20, 2003)
ghosts of the past (November 19, 2003)
potato chips for the mind (November 18, 2003)
separating out the girly bits (November 13, 2003)
MT delete-and-reinstall checklist (November 11, 2003)
about the eclipse (November 09, 2003)
will the entertainment industry please join the 21st century? (November 07, 2003)
the cubicle busters, revisited. (November 04, 2003)
NaNoWriMo commences (November 01, 2003)
Mozilla > Safari (October 31, 2003)
cyber romance coaching... (October 29, 2003)
a new web development resource from ppk (October 29, 2003)
worthless crap here. move along. (October 29, 2003)
being a woman fulfilled, then and now (October 27, 2003)
beautiful special edition books (October 27, 2003)
how to avoid web (or blogging) burnout (confessions of a former burnoutee) (October 26, 2003)
XForms now? (October 25, 2003)
after the early snow (October 24, 2003)
searching on Amazon (October 24, 2003)
and speaking of the other ostrich (October 22, 2003)
another ostrich with its head in the sand (October 22, 2003)
being a foreigner in Switzerland (October 21, 2003)
NaNoWriMo here we come (October 21, 2003)
becoming a project gutenberg proofreader (October 20, 2003)
swiss democracy (October 19, 2003)
50,000 words in 30 days (October 19, 2003)
iTunes for Windows, day 1 (October 18, 2003)
oh dear oh dear (October 17, 2003)
pain and memories (October 16, 2003)
digging in the digital attic (October 12, 2003)
web design as fashion (October 11, 2003)
the king's return cometh (October 06, 2003)
the ice cream chocolate pudding diet (October 01, 2003)
the creepy water-logged feng shui book (October 01, 2003)
fighting back spam (October 01, 2003)
web standards not über alles (yet) (September 29, 2003)
copycat tv (September 25, 2003)
safari woes (September 25, 2003)
after the crash (September 19, 2003)
argh (September 18, 2003)
Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere (September 14, 2003)
raincoats at harrod's (September 08, 2003)
Lady Sarah (September 05, 2003)
so what happened? (August 31, 2003)

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