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BookCrossing.com

2:05am JST Monday 26 September 2005

I found bookcrossing.com a cool site that encourages people to release books into the wild and keeps track of what books went where!

Tickets to Tel Aviv

Tickets to Tel Aviv

Hello, world!

In about 10 days I will be leaving Tokyo for Tel Aviv, and then making my way to
Jerusalem to join the 2005 Olive Harvest, hosted by the International Solidarity
Movement.  I believe I will become part of an 'international presence' to help
deter the Israeli soldiers from stopping the harvest.

From the ISM website (http://www.palsolidarity.org/main/oh2005/)

     The presence of internationals during harvest time has proven in the
     past to help limit and decrease the severity of attacks.  After a two-day
     training session, volunteers for the Olive Harvest Campaign will stay in
     Palestinian homes in West Bank communities and accompany Palestinian
     families to their olive groves to serve as witnesses to document and
     expose attacks by settlers — supported by the Israeli Army — on farmers
     and their families.

At this point, that's basically the limit of what I know about what things will be
like once I get there!

Before I leave, though, I need to get rid of a couple boxes of clothing.  I plan to
*not* overpack as I did on P.B.!!  (I'm surprised at how hard it is to find
places to donate clothes in Tokyo).

Speaking of which, I have nearly finished my journal entries from my P.B.
adventure.  I am basically done transcribing; I just need to add pictures to those
entries.

I also need to decide what to do with my beloved TJ Bike.  I'm not sure how long I
will be in Palestine, and therefore not sure if it will be worth bringing TJ Bike
with me.

Money is a big question mark right now, but I trust everything will come together
nicely.

Blessings to hurricane, typhoon and war torn places around the world, where people
are being forced to release their possessions and lives.

Blessings to Chesleigh who chose to release her own life.

Blessings to all.

     Love and Peace
     - Rob! 

Today

3:06am JST Tuesday 27 September 2005

Today I spent a lot of time on my computer. First, I *nearly* finished transcribing the final tape!! I may do it now after I finish this entry just to be *done* with it!!

I got sidetracked reading google.com/ig, which I have set up to show me lots of tech news and stuff. I sent a couple of articles to Fred and Dude for our mutual comments. Dude was like, "we need a blog to talk about this stuff," and I was like, "I got a blog thing," (bbst), and then after a few emails, I was convinced to try out wordpress, which I ended up installing on my site. My basic idea is to put commentary on URLs and crap on wordpress and keep my journal with day to day adventures untouched. permalink

themes

##20:08 Monday 26 September 2005

I just installed the Batavia 1.5 theme. I didn't like the color, but I like the design, especially the little squares around the top of the calendar. Dude said it's easy enough to change the colors, so that's what I did. It wasn't trivial; the feedback loop took a few steps, but I'm pretty happy with the colors now.

wordpress

##18:19 Monday 26 September 2005

I just installed wordpress from wordpress.org at Dude's suggestion. It looks pretty cool. At first I was like, "ain't no way I'm gonna revamp all my journal shit, so I ain't installing fuckin' wordpress," but then I thought, "ain't no way I'm gonna revamp all my journal shit, but I could start a non-journal blog on my site, just to keep up with the times."