Category Archives: Software

Mark Pilgrim has lost his temper about the W3C abolishing a couple of tags in the XHTML specification. I don’t understand why. That may not be news. I understand, at best, about half of what I read on his site: … Continue reading → Continue reading →

But this horrendous burst of redesigning, which culminated in the rolling, changing subtitle under the new logo, made me feel, for a moment or two, that I actually knew what the hell was going on with MT. The only hassle … Continue reading → Continue reading →

I found the ultimate entry device on Slashdot: as you can see, the any key is still missing. Continue reading →

MT never stops surprising me. It’s horribly Unixish, in that it will do anything you could possibly want, if you are prepared to grub about in templates, add-ons, and configuration files. But the authors actually think and care about what … Continue reading → Continue reading →

Whaddya mean, I missed the deadline? Here is my technology review of the year: stuff that was actually useful to a writer. Continue reading →

This has been positively the last rediseign of the site for 2002. Thank you. I just got bored of the retro telnet look. Continue reading →

There is something delightful about the fact that this illuminating interview with Whit Diffie, though very recent, is accessible only through Google’s cache. I bet they did it to make the libertarians feel better. Continue reading →

from an exploded bubble: I just had a spam from theStreet.com offering the following books on sale for Christmas … Continue reading →

Powerpoint users! This seems even worse than the dream I had all year when working as a paliamentary sketch writer: that I was taking a place on the opposition front benches stark naked, and everyone in the chamber had noticed … Continue reading → Continue reading →

At last, I have joined the rest of the human race. I found a netgear router/wireless base station and a card for the laptop in Technomatics ( Continue reading →