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Monthly Archives May 2004

Seriously not getting it here.

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
poorly-timed emergency maintenance since they [...]

Posted 08 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (3) °

New desk!

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 which puts the monitor on [...]

Posted 06 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (6) °

—

How hard would it have been for the HTML entity for “—” —
the em dash — to have been &emdash; and not
— ? 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 of those guys — and [...]

Posted 01 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments (6) °

rusty anchors

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 programming course, for Java, Python, C, or Logo

Posted 01 May 2004 † Rich § LiveJournal ‡ Comments Off °