Now it’s time to get to work on that redesign I’ve had in the back of my mind for a month or so. Major restructure. Minimalism is the goal. I’ll start by cutting away everything that’s not a blog entry and then add stuff one by one and see if I really need it there.

Off [...]

Tomas Jogin wrote a bit about anti-aliasing and ClearType in Windows. I thought I’d chip in with my €.02.

The first thing I noted when I first laid eyes on OS X was the nice fonts. If you have a graphic card capable of OpenGL, OS X uses its Quartz Extreme engine to render the fonts [...]

“2-in-1 is a bullshit term, because 1 is not big enough to hold 2. That’s why 2 was created.”
— Mitch Hedberg

It’s midsummer eve. I’m drunk. I have major problems typing correctly. Not that it stops me from blogging. (Magnus is here, btw)

In Fidonet, we had a nice tradition: if you’re drunk, it’s forbidden to use backspace.

Well, back to the game of Trivial Pursuit. I’m sure I’ll manage. Somehow.

Swedes traduitionally get drynk about thid time of [...]

Rumored specs for the rumored Apple G5 PPC 970.

1.6Ghz, 1.8Ghz, or dual 2Ghz PowerPC G5 Processors
Up to 1 Ghz processor bus (!!!)
Up to 8 GB of DDR SDRAM
Fast Serial ATA hard drives
AGP 8X Pro graphics options from NVIDIA or ATI
Three PCI or PCI-X expansion slots
Three USB 2.0 ports
One FireWire 800, two FireWire 400 ports
Bluetooth & [...]

You know that whacky senator who wants to give copyright holders the right to destroy the computers of pirates?

He’s a pirate himself. Oh, the wonderful irony.

I’m fully expecting him to come out and say “I had no idea, it was my webmaster who did it!” This perfectly illustrates the danger of his proposal. No matter [...]

Just a post to let the Popdex crawler verify my blog.

My Popdex Game Profile Popdex Metapop

Looks like I’m not the only one who has been getting referrer spam from phiberweb.com. Two lines in my .htaccess and he now gets a 403.

RewriteCond %{HTTP_REFERER} phiberweb\.com
RewriteRule .* - [F,L]

Mark Pilgrim is also very keen on killing rude bots.

While I’m at it I gave kooqoo.com the finger, since their RSS crawler incorrectly [...]

In late 1997, I suddenly and unexpectedly suffered from a severe depression.

And I still can’t write about it.

(I am pinioned
her eyes move)

Rands elaborates a bit on a comment Brent Simmons (of NetNewsWire fame) said in an interview.

After sitting staring at the ceiling thinking about this comment, I realize it crystallized, for me, a very basic question about how to think about weblogs. The painfully simple question is, “What is a weblog?” The painfully simple answer is, [...]