I see I haven’t mentioned here that Charlie Stross’s novel Saturn’s Children is printed in modified Bembo, with single-loop ‘a’ and hook-tailed ‘gy’. It’s remarkable how much the page color is affected by those three letters.

I’m reading Ken Macleod’s novel The Execution Channel (Tor hardcover 2007). It appears that someone replaced every ‘fi’ or ‘fl’ with a ligature, without checking case.

I designed a bumper sticker, which is not acutely relevant just now — but I wanted to get it done ahead of the rush.

Apple’s TextEdit refuses to save as .txt. What’s up wit dat?

It’s tempting to say that the jail sentence of Alan Shadrake confirms his allegation, but no; it doesn’t show that Singapore’s judiciary is corrupt, merely that the Republic of Singapore is a coward.

I got a webcam for my birthday. If you want to see what I’m like in realtime, it can be arranged. I don’t promise to scintillate.

Jonas discovered that, if you write a comment here with three links, you’ll be taken to a 403 page without explanation. I haven’t found the configuration setting that does this.