Keywords

The personal blog of P. Kerim Friedman.

Category: Announcements

Traffic

Not the first time I’ve been linked to by BoingBoing, so I know from experience that after the link disappears from the front page of BoingBoing few of those readers will come back (few even read anything but the linked post), but it is still quite phenomenal to see the difference a link can make: [...]

Commute

I just have a crappy camera phone, but here are some pictures of my new life in Taiwan. It is just a 10-15 minute bike ride between where I will live and my office. The view from my new office: Inside my office: {taiwan, 台灣, 東華大學, 花蓮}

Office

In India, on January 12th, around one thirty in the morning, back from a long day of filming which had involved over nine hours of driving, I fired up my iBook just before going to bed. Thats when I got the email that would turn our lives upside down: I had been appointed as assistant [...]

Anticipation

I’m off … Tune in next week for the big news! (Hint.) {adventure}

Upgrading…

I’m in the middle of upgrading to WordPress 2.0.1. This has created all kinds of additional work with plugins and the like, so please hold on till everything is back to normal! UPDATE: Seems to be working OK. Some plugins are disabled for now, like the “recent comments” which used to appear in the sidebar. [...]

TF still guest blogging!

I haven’t thanked TF for his wonderful guest blogging while I was in India, because I’ve asked him to continue guest blogging over the next month, as I have some activities which will keep me otherwise occupied. (More on those when the time comes.) {guest, tf}

4 Meme

I’ve never been tagged for one of these blogger memes before, but now that M E-L’s tagged me I have no choice but to join the borg: {four, meme}

Masala

ABCDLady has a nice profile of Shashwati: For the future, Talukdar hopes to turn a screenplay she just finished into a film. Double Vision is a sci-fi thriller with a South Asian American female as the main character. “I’d love to make it,” she says, “You never really see South Asian American women in action [...]

Debut

Guest post by tf At the risk of turning my first blog posting into a fraternal lovefest, I must take exception with one aspect of my brother’s characterization of me. I may be his older brother, but I can hardly claim to be his smarter brother. Indeed, I wish that I had a mastery of [...]

My Mycroft

Just as Sherlock Holmes had his smarter brother Mycroft, I have a smarter big brother as well: TF. Although not lazy and fat like Mycroft, he has so far been as reclusive. All that is about to change… Starting tomorrow, TF will be guest blogging here at Keywords. TF lives in Paris, loves architecture, Edward [...]