Category Archives: blogdom

boarders repelled

Some little while ago, I changed the name of a file used in the comment process, and submission of comments by spambots ceased. Comments are now open, until another wave breaches the battlements. I’m betting that the number of good … Continue reading

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no f*n without u

I’m experimenting with format here, taking baby steps in CSS and PHP. Please don’t hesitate to comment on legibility.

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approval

My friend Mike Linksvayer links to some good info about voting methods. See in particular why the problem of “tactical” voting does not go away with Automatic Runoff (Australian ballot).

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fashions change

Some of you are familiar with referral spam. The spammer issues HTTP requests for pages of yours, giving the advertiser’s address as the source of the link; you look at your HTTP log and say to yourself “whoopee, there’s a … Continue reading

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catching stragglers

If you’ve written something that intercepts HTTP requests for missing pages and makes an educated guess where they should go, do you mind sharing it?

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Hello world!

Coming to you almost live on WordPress, because one host ought to be enough for anyone. Even cooler, it’s all written in PHP; no Javascript needed. Conversion from Blogger was surprisingly easy. Now to customize it — because I really … Continue reading

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another sort of language blog

In his blog Literal-Minded, Neal Whitman reports on his toddler’s acquisition of syntax.

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