ISSN 1496-3221
December 27, 2011
After 120 hours or so without DSL service, whatever issue that caused the initial outage has apparently been fixed. The Newted Community is back online. This server is back online. All of my hostees are probably breathing a bit easier. Thanks to my ISP (and no thanks to my telco) for kicking the right amount … More
May 19, 2009
When Twitter changed the behaviour of replies exactly one week ago, my initial reaction was one of bafflement. The rationale they gave, “… receiving one-sided fragments via replies sent to folks you don’t follow in your timeline is undesirable …”, simply didn’t cut the mustard with me. This “undesirable” behaviour was one of the reasons … More
December 18, 2008
I had been wondering why it had been so quiet around here. It seems that at some point over the past month or so, the dumb ass Blogger-supplied inline comment form went kerflunky. I blame it on the non-validating markup generated by their templates and the flakey implementation of their requisite <iframe> elements. Time to … More
October 22, 2008
No, you’re not seeing things … that’s a small sliver of 4D’s WebStar 4.4 running under OS 9 (9.1 to be exact, not Classic). This post could be simple documentation of my attempt to unify the administration of the servers residing in my basement. That would be absolutely true. But in all honesty, I’m just … More
September 26, 2008
What’s the hell is that up there? Is that actually some navigation at the top of the page? Why, I haven’t seen anything like that in months … I know. Yes, believe your eyes. A few common links have been added back to the page header. I’m not sure why I left these out of … More
September 17, 2008
Shoot me in the head. Stab me in the eye. Instead of using .Net, I think I’d rather die.
May 17, 2008
When I rolled out the redesign of this site back in March, I admitted that not everything was going to be properly bolted down. One thing I neglected to do was redirect the old RSS feed to the new location. Some of my faithful readers who have historically received their regular dose o’ splorp via … More
May 8, 2008
It was tough keeping this under wraps for so long, but the project I have been working on for the past six months was finally released last week. The longer we worked on it, the more impatient we became about letting everyone in on the story. A handful of people probably managed to pick up … More
March 16, 2008
I’ve always thought it rather interesting that the term “skinned” can refer to the removal of something (as in “I skinned the neighbor’s cat.”) as well as the exchanging of one thing for another (as in “I just skinned my browser to look like a deathstar.”) As you may have noticed, the look and feel … More
July 18, 2007
I just noticed that 11 years ago today, I registered my first domain name.