Writing
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Upgrading to Movable Type 3 (or not)
I upgraded to MT3 on my development site, but haven’t rolled anything out live, having hit some problems. I’ll wait for them to be fixed officially, rather than spend time hacking…
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Installing DBI and DBD::mysql on Mac OS X Panther
A guide to installing DBI and DBD::mysql, which I completely failed to find anywhere online (or at least, in a form that worked).
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TheyWorkForYou.com
Our new project launches today after several months of work… track your MP’s most recent appearances in parliament, search all the speeches and written answers, comment on proceedings…
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London’s Elections - The Designers
Analysing the London mayoral candidates based on their grasp of design. Few have any.
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Less metadata, more music
Having thrown away my to do list, I recently finished transferring 342 songs taped from the radio to MP3.
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Dabbling
Last summer I tried my hand at painting, after nine years of doing none. It went OK, and I did three paintings I was quite pleased with, but damn, it’s hard work.
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External scaffolding
I’ve started taking notes when reading non-fiction, in an attempt to hammer facts and ideas into my broken sieve of a brain. So I though I might as well put them online, starting with three books.
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Homeostatic envelope
The idea that there are boundaries defining the limits of normal experience, from joy to depression, and
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Belgrade and Novi Sad
Lots of traffic, even more sports shoes and a couple of photos.
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Goof of the day
The official Parliament website plumbs new depths of cluelessness.
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The Balkans by Mark Mazower
The fact that the recent troubles in the area only get a couple of the 135 pages shows what a…
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Audioscrobbler
Having lots of fun with Audioscrobbler, which is, really, kind of like a social networking site without all the annoying “Are you my friend” stuff, and with lots and lots of music.
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Donald Barthelme’s reading list
81 works recommended by Donald Barthelme, and why such reading lists are far more intriguing than ‘50 Essential Albums You Must Own’ style lists.
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Small Pieces Loosely Joined: A Unified Theory of the Web by David Weinberger
I never expect much from net-related books, assuming I’ll have heard it all before elsewhere.…
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Bye bye HyperCard
HyperCard has been put out of its misery, which seems inevitable but a shame. But you can download a stack I made a dozen years ago. About tea.
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Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems, and the Economic World by Kevin Kelly
Reading this for the first time, ten years after publication, it’s a mix of comfortingly…
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Powergen’s negative energy
How can one company do so many simple things wrong: Powergen sent me a gas bill a while back,…
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Goodbye frames, hello CSS
Live After Dark, a site I developed at Poke around the New Year, went live last week and despite the design’s flouting of many of today’s best web design practices, I’m proud of certain aspects of its construction.
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Houston’s transport
Houston’s got light rail. But it didn’t when I was there, and I’ve provided a handy set of bullet-points outlining my experience of travel in the city.
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Goodbye spam
A graph demonstrating what a difference using Knowspam.net has made to my incoming email over the past month.
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California photos
My photos of sunsets, palm trees, blue skies, and few people, from my recent trip.
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Goodbye fabius@well.com
I’m unsubscribing from the the Well after seven years. It was OK.
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Back from California
Etcon highlights, a couple of days in LA, and a tempered enthusiasm for America.
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Why not to buy a Roomba
The cute little robot vacuum cleaners have rather less ethical cousins.
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Pre-conference fun
What I got up to on Monday in San Diego. Walking, CDs, books, burger, horse shoeing, Mexican.