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Fatherhood

Welcome to TNL.net. If you like this content, you may consider subscribing to the RSS feed.Introducing my new son, Munro Wilson Louis, arrived in the USA on March 9th.

The whole family is fine but we’re still getting the hang of that parenthood thing.

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The TNL.net Research Grant

Today is my 35th birthday and I was wondering about the best way to celebrate this on the site. The way I’ve decided to do so is to announce the launch of a new research grant fund: The TNL.net Research Grant.
Genesis of the idea
The TNL.net research grant was born out of my own experience over [...]

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Tis the Season to think of others

We interrupt the analysis time of this blog to make a request. This holliday season, please think of someone you don’t know and make a donation. Here are some worthy (in my view) candidates:

Creative Commons: If you run a weblog, you already know about it. If you don’t, Creative Commons is actually one of the [...]

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Blog-X Awards

Well, it’s time to help TNL.net get a little more notice. Techweb has announced the Blog-X award and I need your help in getting this blog there. Please nominate the TNL.net weblog It doesn’t take that long and it has the potential of getting a whole bunch of new people exposed to it.

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Please help Guatemala

Hurricane Stan has devastated Guatemala, leaving behind over 1,400 dead and destructions that makes what recently happen in New Orleans pale in comparison. However, few are aware of it and even fewer know where to contribute. Following is a list of places where you can donate money to help deal with this disaster. Please do [...]

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9-11 at 4

As the fourth anniversary of the terrorist act on the world trade center approaches, I have started doing an assessment of the efforts since then.
Before we dive in, I’d like to provide a word of caution to my more conservative readers. The following piece will be a lot more critical of the Bush administration than [...]

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TNL.net Syndication News: Upgraded ATOM feeds and more

From Tim Bray comes the news that ATOM, a new syndication standard, is reaching the 1.0 mark. TNL.net has supported the standard for over a year now. As of today, TNL.net is proud to support the 1.0 version of the standard and congratulates all parties involved in developing it.
First of all, there’s a slew of [...]

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Save the Tristan Louis page on Wikipedia

A funny thing is happening on Wikipedia. A while back, for an experiment in tracking how often Google updated its results with data from Wikipedia, I created a wikipedia page for myself on the site. I then promptly forgot about it until edits starting popping up in my RSS aggregator. Turns out the page is [...]

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Email trouble

Looks like my spam filters are over-reacting again. If you’ve sent me email in the last week, please try again. If I don’t answer within 48 hours, try using the web form, which seems to still work out OK.

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Another TNL.net shakeup

If you read TNL.net in an RSS aggregator, you may have noticed something weird happening. This is because RSS feeds have been switched to a new location, as part of a complete rewrite of the TNL.net back-end system. New feeds (and more) can be found on the new feeds page. Other changes on the site [...]

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