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?

I wonder whether anyone has published a book with a title like 1337 Programming Tips.

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 dislike the present look [i.e. the default template of the then current version]. How do I undo whatever makes class storycontent look compressed, when I can’t find storycontent in the CSS file?

I also wonder if I can turn off “smart” punctuation, which, in my default font, messes up the line spacing.

I’ll also have to go through the archives and remove all the line breaks that I put in to make the source more legible. sigh

We have broadband! Mainly because my housemate wanted to listen to BBC without glitches, but hey, I’m not kicking it out of bed. For the first year it’s cheaper than dialup plus the extra phone line.

The Daily WTF showcases badly written code. (Cited by Ned Batchelder, who found it from Bob Congdon.)

quoth Paul Graham:

But VCs are mistaken to look for the next Microsoft, because no startup can be the next Microsoft unless some other company is prepared to bend over at just the right moment and be the next IBM.

Tehee. In the same essay:

Because you can’t tell a great hacker except by working with him, hackers themselves can’t tell how good they are. This is true to a degree in most fields. I’ve found that people who are great at something are not so much convinced of their own greatness as mystified at why everyone else seems so incompetent. The people I’ve met who do great work rarely think that they’re doing great work. They generally feel that they’re stupid and lazy, that their brain only works properly one day out of ten, and that it’s only a matter of time until they’re found out.

Why, that’s just how I feel! Do you suppose . . . ?

(Perry Metzger pointed me to Graham’s essays.)

Subject: The Concept of a Meta-Font
Date: Sat, 05 Jun 2004 03:18:42 -0700
From: Anton Sherwood
To: knuth-bug

Digital Typography page 312, near the middle of note [11]

759,499,667,966,482 [ = 2 * 19 * 3717809 * 5375971 ]

should be

759,499,667,166,482 [ = 2 * 11^14 ]

The same error is listed as corrected in Selected Papers page 41.

Today I received the coveted bounty. Woohoo!