shiny new RSS feeds

Over the weekend I finally brought this site's RSS feeds into the 21st century. For the main blog, both summary and full-post feeds are available; the buttons under "site information" up and to the right provide the links. Sideblog posts... [read more]

anti-aliasing

My workstation is a crusty Pentium II running a version of linux now several generations old. Unfortunately, it's not really worth an OS upgrade—whereas once, not so many years ago, linux was quite happy with 256 or even 128 megs... [read more]

referrer spam sucks

Not as debilitating as comment or trackback spam, but nonetheless chews through bandwidth like nobody's business. Tonight this site got hit pretty hard. Fortunately, Caveat Lector demonstrates how to use .htaccess to block commonly used strings in the spamming urls,... [read more]

codependent enabling

[Repost from 072804. Many bloggers still seem unaware of the link generator, so a bit more publicity won't hurt.] Like any honest reactionary, I loathe the New York Times. —John Derbyshire Unlike Mr. Derbyshire, I'm too young to be a... [read more]

Ghost of a Flea

Over the past few days, I've been installing upgrades over at Nicholas Packwood's Ghost of a flea, which is one of the leading lights of the Canadian blogosphere. (And with traffic to match: last month about 40x what I received... [read more]

comment spam: state of the arms race

My apologies for the extended absence. And in lieu of either policy rumblings or idle distractions, tonight's offering is about...blog maintenance—in particular, dealing with the scourge that is comment spam. [read more]

google is life

Yes, that is an exaggeration. But on a daily basis, if I use Google once, I use it six or eight or a dozen times. It's become my secondary brain. But that doesn't mean I have mastered all the search... [read more]

whoa.

James and I put a lot of time into the design of this blog: it was his first experience with Movable Type, and I'm, well, a perfectionist. We compared notes on many different sites. James was disappointed to discover that... [read more]

you're a geek when...

…this is your plan for becoming a babe magnet: But you can't customize window borders and friends based on the window properties like you can in Sawfish (“Matched Windows”). So all your windows always have the same titlebar and border.... [read more]