Welcome to erim.net

This is the website of Erim Foster; web developer, boat dweller, traveller, amateur photographer, smart-ass, and generally nice fella (unless I’m in one of my moods, in which case all bets are off). Please have a look around, enjoy some photos, hire me, or drop me a line.


Recent Posts

the exponential function

February 19th, 2006

Last Wednesday night I went to a meeting of the local Portland Peak Oil group, which meets in the St. Francis Church dining hall over on SE Pine every week. The main reason was just to check out the group, since Peak Oil is an issue we should all take seriously. But, I was also [...]


why we fight

February 13th, 2006

Go see this movie, that’s what I suggest. Go see it, and then tell all your friends to see it. I watched it Saturday night, at the most excellent Cinema 21 down the street from me. It’s a powerful, heart-wrenching and maddening look at our hyper-militarist society, and how it’s come to be. The movie [...]


have liver, will travel

February 13th, 2006

If only I could get paid to hang out in bars and talk to interesting strangers. This thought occurred to me, not for the first time, after going out Friday night and meeting some interesting folks. There seem to be a lot of friendly people in Portland, and many of them like to drink beer [...]


governance by sleight of hand

February 8th, 2006

Okay, this is seriously nuts, but it seems that our fearless leader has adopted a new strategy to pass his much-maligned Social Security “reform” – namely, don’t tell anybody. According to this article in the Washington Post, the budget proposal Bush presented to Congress on Monday contains actual details about his proposed plan to divert [...]


uncle sam wants me

January 25th, 2006

Check this out. I occasionally post ads on Craig’s List for my web development services. When I post these ads, I include a tracking file in the html, which gives me the ability to see how many people view my ad by analyzing my web server logs. I can also see who clicks through to [...]