I covered the new, plain layout in my last post, but there are even more changes today.

I’m taking advantage of the Google Font Directory to bring some better fonts to the site, without requiring readers to have any particular fonts installed on their system.  Google hosts the fonts and most browsers are supported.  I’m using Crimson Text for the basic text and Inconsolata where a monospaced type is needed.  By the way, Inconsolata is a fantabulous font for code and is the default for my terminal and Emacs on every machine I can configure.

As for the name…  I just got sick of the old one and it was time for a change.  Then, at work over lunch, we were talking about serial communications, start/stop bits, parity bits, and checksums.  One of my coworkers became lost in a side conversation, missed a few references, and loudly declared a “checksum failure” and reset the conversation.  This seemed more than appropriate, so I’m running with it.