strangely entangled

I found a great little Vancouver restaurant review blog: Ethnic Eats by Degan Beley.

This might annoy the native Vancouverites, but since moving here Nat and I have been mostly disappointed with dining out in this city as compared to others that we have lived in. Maybe we just don’t know the right places to visit. I’m hoping Ethnic Eats can help.

Some of Degan’s photos already have my stomach rumbling.

I just finished reading an excellent article over at Wired: “High Tech Cowboys of the Deep Seas: The Race to Save the Cougar Ace”. It’s about the efforts made to right a nearly-capsized cargo ship off the Alaskan coast. Very well written and very engaging. I highly recommend it.

I really want to use Twitter. I really, really do. But their service seems to have a lot of availability problems. It’s up, it’s down, it’s flakey, and then suddenly it works just fine.

Is it just me, or is this happening to lots of people? A quick Google tells me it’s the latter. In which case, why do people continue to use it? Why not use alternative services like Jaiku or Pownce?

(note: this was the first time I ran Twitterific in weeks!)

What is it about Twitter that keeps people coming back for more, despite its flakiness?