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Jun 27 2005
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On Marriage

Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered MarriageMy husband and I just had our 4th anniversary past Friday. Well, that is not really relevant, but I just heard a good program about marriage on Diane Rehm show this morning.

It’s an interview with Stephanie Coontz, the author of “Marriage, a History: From Obedience to Intimacy, or How Love Conquered Marriage.”
She throws in facts from history to analyze marriage today. Starting with something like “for 1000′s of years, people didn’t get married for love. Getting married for love is a radical idea”… The way she does it is so objective it lacks sympathy -that’s probably normal for a sociologist talking about her subject matter, but not usual for people who talks about marriage in general. In fact that’s what I liked about her talk.

But at the same time it’s surprising that she doesn’t sound like a cold-hearted theorist at all. Rather, she comes off as a really curious person who is so eager to find the truth about marriage, relationship, and family.

The sound file of the program is now online (link to the program pagex). If you are married, thinking about getting married, or just curious about what she says, I think it’s worth listening!

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Jun 13 2005
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More Art Fairs in SE Michigan

Just a reminder for myself.
I made up a list of this summer’s art fairs around where I live.
I might add more later…

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Jun 12 2005
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Detroit Festival of the Arts 2005

Today I went to the Detroit Festival of the Arts with my friend.

Sand Sculpture

This is my third time, and I am always happy to see a wide variety of good artists (including musicians/performing artists) at this festival.

Some of the artists I really liked…

Emerson (Photography)

http://www.emersonimages.com
He has taken photos all around the world. Most of his photos are framed/mounted with a complementing quote. Simple but so beautiful.

Gretchen Kramp (Ceramic Tiles)

I’ve always liked her work. If I had $400 that I could spend today, I would have bought the framed tiles on display. She’s the one who did the frog mural in Detroit Zoo (Oh I love that mural so much…).

Herb Brown (Handwrought Jewelry)

I got a couple of toe rings from him today (frog and daisy :-) ).

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Jun 10 2005
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Musical Baton

Mayu passed me a .
(This entry is also posted on detlog.org in Japanese)

Total volume of music files on my computer:

13.23GB according to my iTunes -but that includes 4G of non-music mp3 files- so 9 GB then.

The last CD I bought:

Songs For Silverman (Deluxe Edition)/Songs For Goldfish (CD) [Deluxe CD Bundle]
I’m glad I “deluxed” it.

Song playing right now:

“Suicide Life” by Eels.

Five songs I listen to a lot, or that mean a lot to me:

Simply selected from my Audioscrobbler Top Songs:

Five people to whom I’m passing the baton:

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Jun 02 2005
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Multiblogs in two languages

I occasionally get email asking how I set up two blogs for my site (detlog.org and blog.detlog.org).
There are now several multiblogging solutions out there, but I still keep good ol’ “two separate installs” here.

It’s not that I have anything against those alternative multiblog hacks -I just didn’t know any other way at the time I started! I’ve never even tried those hacks to find out how they are… (I want to hear how you like those multiblog hacks!)

Another reason why I keep them this way is that my web host, DreamHost, has a nice & easy 1-click WordPress installation feature. It’s so easy that I’m spoiled now…

One downside of having two installs is I have to install all plugins twice. Although most of plugins are pretty simple and all you need to do is upload files/activate them, it could be pain if you are really into using a large number of plugins for both your blogs.

As for encording, I use UTF-8 for both English/Japanese blogs. I started out using EUC-JP but recently switched to UTF (finally…). I recommend using the same encording if possible, because it helps you manage themes/plugins with much less work.

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