Ten Years of Issa Online

Tuesday, May 4th, 2010

Dear Issa, Of all the projects I’ve worked on in a decade of such work at the University, one of the very first remains one of the very best. I’m talking of course about the website, Haiku of Kobayashi Issa. Through this project I learned plenty about scripting search queries and managing Japanese character encoding. [...]

Well, I Finally Wrote a Haiku

Thursday, May 22nd, 2008

No school today, so quiet — and then the machinery.

Katrina-ku

Monday, August 7th, 2006

I just got my copy of Katrina-ku: Storm Poems, a compilation of haiku poetry about you-know-what, to which I contributed a little technical assistance. It’s a beautiful little book, quite sad but also quite funny. Get your copy — they’re cheap!