Archives for Category: Geekery

How Long is One Meter?

September 1, 2009

One area I have always found interesting is the standardization of measurements; that locked in a vault somewhere there was some piece of metal—probably some rare alloy in a vacuum or at some specific temperature—that was exactly twelve inches long or weighed precisely one pound, and these were the standard

Site Updates

August 23, 2009

As I continue to dust off some of the rust around here, I changed the fonts served up by the stylesheet. Previously, the main typeface used was Lucida Grande and Trebuchet for Mac OS X and Windows users, respectively. For a bit of contrast and because I like old-style figures,

Mea Culpa

August 11, 2009

In the past, I have scoffed Facebook and been proven correct. And I have railed against iPhone hype…and been wrong. I finally broke down and joined the rest of the lemmings and picked up an iPhone 3G S, on launch day no less. I was sort of intrigued by the

Customizing the Movable Type Bookmarklet

April 6, 2008

The Elsewhere mini-blog howyadoin’ over in the sidebar is actually a separate blog in my Movable Type installation. I use the Multiblog plugin to pull the 15 most recent posts and display them here. A cool feature is Multiblog’s ability to set triggers so that when a new Elsewhere post

Digital Photography Update

March 15, 2008

Although I don’t look forward to doing anything about it (see below), one area of this site that needs some tweaking is the photos section. Currently, the photos page is a separate blog with templates created by Doug Bowman of StopDesign. What I liked about these templates is I could

Want GMail?

October 17, 2004

Here’s a blatant attempt to win back some readers with some outright bribery: I have six gmail accounts to give away. I can’t recommend it enough, especially if you are a Hotmail or Yahoo mail user. The interface is clean, fast and its handling of threaded messages is top-notch. First