I’ve been thinking about the challenges of scaling authenticity. Here’s an example: I bought olive oil and balsamic vinegar from Francesco Sammarelli today. He was offering samples at the urban grocery near the office. Unlike most folks offering up food samples, he has a namesake company, Sammarelli, and alongside the bread and fig spread at [...]

Lots and lots of nasty comment spam that Dreamhost is now noticing on the database that runs bplusd. At their suggestion, I’m upgrading to the latest version of wordpress, which will break my theme and some IA. UPDATE: looks like it broke more than that (category names didn’t come over, so they are all blank, [...]