A new version of the Movable Type weblog software was released today, with what appears to be a pretty drastic licensing change which hasn’t gone over well with a lot of midsize users. Basically, MT is now commercial software for any sites running more than three weblogs, or with more than one author, which seems […]

I need web hosting. A bunch of people have recommended Dreamhost, and I’m this close –>||<– to signing up for their $US 20/mo package there. Before I do, though, I want to make sure I’m not missing out on a reliable Canadian alternative. For $US 20 per month, Dreamhost offers: 40 GB/mo transfer (close to […]

I’ve probably posted here before about the whistle forums that I host as a favour to the guy who runs the Chiff and Fipple tinwhistle website. These tiny little forums about tinwhistles manage to generate about 40GB of traffic and two baseless legal threats a month and have generally been a source of trouble and […]

Yay, I have a new desk! It’s the SET workstation from Ikea, which I’ve wanted for a while now. I ended up having to order it online, since the local Ikea only stocked the böring white ones. The monitor is a little higher than I’m used to (a lot higher compared to my old Krister […]

How hard would it have been for the HTML entity for “—” — the em dash — to have been &emdash; and not &mdash; ? Was there such a shortage of space available that we couldn’t have that little “e” there? Did they believe that it was called “m dash”? Every time I use one […]

Some of my recent del.icio.us bookmarks: ☞ Foreword: A Book Design Blog ☞ Typographica — great weblog on all things typographic ☞ Rack Rulers — Tape measure optimized for equipment racks ☞ assaisonner — seasoning is simply the addition of salt. ☞ How To Think Like A Computer Scientist — Allen B Downey’s ab initio […]

A few years ago, while there was still a dot-com bubble, there was a company selling an internet appliance with a flat screen, which after its release took about a day for someone to figure out how to get it to run Linux. The company was selling them at a loss and making things up […]

I have 110 Freezies. I bought a box today at the grocery store. I suppose I figured they were roughly popsicle-like in quantity, until I started taking them out of the box and putting them in the fridge, or more specifically, until I realized that some time later I was still taking them out of […]