we rest our eyes on fleecy skies

Today is the sort of gorgeous day that only comes after a heavy rain.

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duelling bumperstickers

On the tail of a sea-green Plymouth Voyager:

If you’re not outraged, you’re not paying attention
and
Be forgiving of yourself and others

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leet for dummies?

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

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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 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

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naughty

proposed design for Louisiana quarter

2006: that site apparently no longer exists, so here’s a copy of the item.

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wahoo!

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.

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can you say it with a straight face?

Forensic theology. (Cited by Travis.) (Link updated 2006.)

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