ambient

In case you haven’t heard, the food in Japan is out of this world. But sometimes, I find myself longing for some favorites from back home. In particular, I really miss good Mexican and good Pizza.

After Googling around a bit, I happened upon the recipe site from one of my old blog buddy’s sites, Simply Recipes. I had forgotten how much good stuff Elise has there and I spent quite awhile browsing through an amazing collection of pizzas, tortillas, sandwiches and more. I highly recommend it.

I just pushed a new version of Gridjit live. Users now have the ability to post to Twitter from within Gridjit. It’s a simple enhancement, but as a user myself, I’ve noticed that it greatly enhances my experience and usage of Twitter.

In order to post, just click on “What are you doing?” and a text field will drop down.

Most of the quirks should be worked out, but if you run into issues, feel free to comment here or ping @gridjit on Twitter.

Additionally, I’ve been hard at work designing the next version of Gridjit. There’s lots of neat stuff in store, so stay tuned!

I signed up for social aggregation service FriendFeed the other day. Definitely not blown away by the UI or the performance, but I think today was the day that it clicked for me.

Facebook has become a useful way for me to stay in touch with people since we moved to Japan a month ago. I added the FriendFeed application to my Facebook profile and when I logged into Facebook today - wham! - all of my stuff was right there.

I’ve always been pretty transparent on the web. It’s easy to find me, but I have maintained certain barriers between my various accounts. For example, I use Vimeo to share videos with my family only. But I did link it to my FriendFeed account, so, pop, now my videos show up in FriendFeed and Facebook. As do my Twitters, another account that I have not integrated into Facebook.

It took me by surprise. The jury is still out - for me - on whether I like this or not.

I know YouTube is the most popular video-sharing site on the web, but I’ve always liked the aesthetics, quality of content and privacy options found on Vimeo much better (beautiful site re-design, btw).

Anyways, I found this video today of music set to a magnetic ink print processing. The effect is out of this world.

Note: Vimeo - please fix your embedding functionality. It completely torqued my site.