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While post tagging and the tag cloud have been successful on the site over the past few years, I've found it's also good to have a bigger-picture content view at times. Thus, my recent introduction of Sets.

These are the top categories on the site, or the ones I want to highlight—they don't correspond exactly with the "largest" tags, but there is overlap. To avoid confusion with tags having similar names, I appended these with "Set:", sort of like the "Category:" in Wikipedia.

• Set:California - Especially Southern California, Los Angeles, and the Inland Empire.
• Set:Computers - Hardware, programming and coding, open source and free software.
• Set:Cycling - Recreational, commuting, and utility.
• Set:Entertainment - Movies, music, gaming, and television.
• Set:Food - Cooking, nutrition, diets, and libations.
• Set:History - The story so far.
• Set:Outdoors - Hiking, environment, trees, birds—all the stuff outside.
• Set:Reading - Text on the page: fiction, poetry, and other.
• Set:Science - Outer space, natural history, weather, geography, and all the other fun pursuits.
• Set:Sports - Especially baseball and soccer.
• Set:Transit - Public transportation, trains, trolleys, buses, funiculars, etc.
• Set:World - Travel, culture, and news around the globe.
• Set:Writing - Getting your point across.

From About The No No Project.

The premise of the project is quite simple:

Walking around town, you’ll see sign after sign forbidding you from performing healthy outdoor activities. Skateboarding. Cycling. Walking for the love of Mike. It goes to show what’s really important in this society: keeping things comfy for sedentary property and car owners who would deny you your god-given right to breathe outdoors!

So I take pictures of all the signs telling me not to exercise.

In case it isn’t clear, this is very much tongue-in-cheek. I’m just amazed how much effort is put into making verboten what are otherwise wholesome diversions.

In some indirect way, I’m also trying to connect the dots on what are often disparate cultures — cyclists and skaters, for example — to show we are united against The Man Trying to Keep Us Down more than we are apart.

See Submissions if you’d like to join in the fun. You can send me email at robert at the domain name nonoproject.com. Thanks for checking out The No No Project.

Also available on Twitter, @nonoproject.

This is my wife, Denyse:

She's 50 today and won't mind my saying so. :) She has been periodically quoting Molly Shannon for about a year now, so here she is in full glory!

I love you, Nyser! Happy Bithday! ;D
Roberto

• January
• February
• March
• April
• May
• June
• July
• August
• September
• October
• November
• December

Yes, it's about time to leave the Oughts to the dustbin of history. Yikes, what a decade! ;)

Happy new decade and year to everybody. Here's to a happier, healthier, and hipper 2010!

Retrospectively, here are some of the most popular or notable Celsius1414 posts of 2009. See the Archive for more.

"40!" and "Generations"

On my fortieth birthday. :)

"Don Cherry summoning demons"

Don Cherry begins the first of his dimension-rending, demon-summoning chants.

"Toasting Poe 200th"

Happy 200th Birthday, EAP!

"Walking poetry"

Given poetry’s basis in rhythm, it perhaps isn’t surprising how much walking has inspired poetry over the centuries. And vice versa.

"Nixing Google adverts"

Due to the recent changes in Google AdWords/AdSense user targeting, including increasing tracking of online behavior, I am getting rid of all Google advertising on Celsius1414.com, along with my other websites.

"Playing ball"

Playing ball with Pharaoh: a short series.

"No Scope!"

This is just silly awesome. From the Matchmaking machinima series, “No Scope Was Involved”:

10th Anniversary Matrix Marathon

• "The Matrix (1999)"
• "The Matrix Reloaded (2003)"
• "The Matrix Revolutions (2003).

"Bling Teeth"

Seen in grocery store. Collect All 10 Grillz! With a z.

"Inland Empire used to run on rails"

Cool article in the Sun tracing the early history of local railroads in the San Bernardino/Redlands area.

"Gripe Porcina"

Gripe Porcina en El Inland. Spied in downtown San Bernardino yesterday.

"Roomba Art"

Take one Roomba vacuum robot, set it to clean a room, and photograph it with extreme exposure times…et voilà! The Roomba Art Flickr group.

"Ow, my knee hurts"

The above isn’t a picture of the inside of my knee. However, it may look something like that at the moment. According to my doctor’s conclusion yesterday, I might have a partial tear of the meniscus.

"Linux Tools for Writers"

Aaron Peters of The Writer’s Technology Companion posted “Moving to Linux: Tools for Writers” last year, covering the basic text editors, word processors, and desktop publishing options in an article for beginning Linux users.

Alien Quadrilogy Marathon:

• "Alien (1979)"
• "Aliens (1986)"
• "Alien 3 (1992)"
• "Alien Resurrection (1997)".

"Knee update"

Well, finally had an MRI last week to determine what is up with my right knee, and my doctor called yesterday to give me the news: small tear in the medial meniscus, a sprain in the medial collateral ligament (MCL), and a femoral bone bruise.

"Quick and easy iced green tea recipe"

I’ve been searching for a good method of making my own iced green tea for a while now, and after a bunch of experiments I finally have an easy way with good results.

"For all mankind..."

I was only six months old at the time, but I remember every detail thanks to recordings, photographs, and written accounts.

"How to get Mac OS X system info via the command line"

I always forget about the system_profiler command in Mac OS X. It gives you an exhaustive list of hardware and system details for the machine you’re on — or a remote server if you’re logged in via SSH.

"How to edit remote files with local vim"

So I finally got around to looking up how to edit remote files with local vim. You do need to have an ssh public/private key set up for the server in question.

"Where are Mac OS X Spaces preferences stored?"

While the options for Mac OS X’s Spaces are set in System Preferences, you won’t find them stored in the ~/Library/Preferences/com.apple.systempreferences.plist file.

"App Store disfunctionality"

Since I know Apple’s App Store takes forever to shuffle stuff through what I can only imagine is an assembly line of elves from Santa’s Workshop working in the off season, I waited the usual 2-3 days to check for NNW’s availability.

"Happy 10th birthday Celsius1414!"

Today marks the 10th anniversary of the celsius1414.com domain name registration.

"End(ing) Pavement"

I have decided to retire the End Pavement website and subsume its content back into my main Celsius1414 site.

"Closing the book on Grown Diaries"

Much like the recent retirement of my End Pavement outdoors blog, I am ending the Grown Diaries site and moving its content into my Celsius1414 website.

"Switching: Linux App Equivalents"

I have been in the process of planning out switching to Linux in 2010 for my main development computer (a laptop), as well as for various web and database servers I am responsible for at work.

"Nabokov discusses Lolita"

Video of Vladimir Nabokov discussing Lolita on a television interview program.

"Is 'No Russian" art?"

Can a video game mission where civilians are ruthlessly slaughtered be art?

"Switching to Linux, but which one?"

In VirtualBox at the moment, I have three virtual machines...

Much like the recent retirement of my End Pavement outdoors blog, I am ending the Grown Diaries site and moving its content into my Celsius1414 website.

I've been writing the Grown Diaries off and on since the second half of 2005, but with some very large "off" gaps. It also moved from being about experiments with eating fruits and vegetables, and more about linking to "interesting things" related to fruits and vegetables. Which I can do anywhere. :)

Thanks to everybody for reading! URLs should be the same, substituting "www.celsius1414.com" for "www.growndiaries.com".

The "new" RSS feed is at http://www.celsius1414.com/node/feed.

I have decided to retire the End Pavement website and subsume its content back into my main Celsius1414 site.

In late 2006, I broke out several different topics that used to appear on Celsius1414 into their own websites. After a year or so, I realized I was spreading myself too thin and got rid of a few. Only one of the satellite sites (Trolley Dodger) really took off, and so I have been debating the fate of the last two for some time -- End Pavement and Grown Diaries. I'm still hoping to expand the latter (though I still might change my mind), but I think two or three blogs+websites will be more than enough for me to deal with.

Especially if I want to be doing any actual bicycling and hiking. :)

On a practical level, and apart from the blog and domain disappearing, not much is changing, the content has been integrated into Celsius1414 and life will continue. I believe all of the comments will come with as well, if my research is correct.

Links will not be redirected automatically as I am letting the endpavement.com domain expire, so please update your outbound links. However, I'm trying to make it as easy a transition as possible with simple substitutions of the celsius1414.com domain for endpavement.com.

Thanks to everyone for reading these past three years, and please do switch on over to the new (old) site if you have a mind to. I look forward to lots of new writing and lots of being outdoors in the year to come.