I’m really looking forward to this long weekend.  I should have a few minutes to work on two side projects: this blog design and learning a new (programming) language. Blog Design Hard to say what I’ll get done.  I really need to put some ideas for what I want down on paper, so I can start [...]

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 [...]

Hopefully, this post will be OBE in a short while, but I just changed the site over to a very plain theme.  The immediate advantages are not clear, but in the end it’s all kinds of better.  The new theme uses HTML5 to mark-up the site in a more semantic fashion.  Instead of everything on [...]

Yet. Another. Return. To. Blogging. I don’t know how many times I’ve written this post over the years. I blog for a little while, then get busy or blocked and the updates stop. Months pass then I write a post about how busy I was and how I hope it’s different this time. I’m sure [...]

Ever since grad school, I’ve been a fan on the Economist.  In this age of blogs and RSS feeds, I’ve come to follow their Democracy in America blog (among others).  Yesterday, they posted about some ancillary tiff in the health care debate.  The interesting thing to me wasn’t the content of the post, but the [...]