A while back, I amended the footer of this site to make clear that I was putting all original work I produce on this blog into the public domain. I disclaimed all intellectual property rights I may have, either copyright or otherwise. I’ve been meaning to write about this decision for so long that I [...]
So a while back, I started treating my blog as a place to store both my thoughts on particular topics as well as links to things on the Internet that I thought were interesting. This may have been frustrating for some of you who were following my All Entries feed and suddenly saw this onslaught [...]
I’m a big fan of John Gruber and his blog Daring Fireball. One of the things that Daring Fireball popularised (at least as far as I’m aware) was interspersing ‘proper’ blog entries that you wrote with links to blogs, videos and things around the Internet that you thought were interesting, typically with your commentary on [...]
Do not adjust your set, the permalinks for the blog have been changed to be numbers. If it’s cool enough for Tumblr, it’s cool enough for me. (All the old links should still work but, if you spot one that doesn’t, let me know.)
This is the problem with themes. When you’ve tweaked a theme to within an inch of its life it’s hard to let it go. This was what happened with Hemingway. I’d spent so long making it mine that the thought of throwing all of that way was too high a barrier to switching. It took [...]
My blog has a new theme. It’s time to ditch Hemingway. The theme has served me well and it was hard to let it go after all the work I’d put in to adjusting it but I need to move on. Hemingway’s been a good example to me of the power of design. While this [...]
One of the things I’ve been meaning to do for absolutely forever is to set up the WordPress installation on this blog to be able to handle Markdown. Well last week I finally bit the bullet and got it over and done with1. But first of all, what’s Markdown? From the Wikipedia entry: Markdown is [...]
It was always a little incongruous that the updates for Crap Comics went up as part of the regular inqk.net site while the comics themselves were posted to inqk.net/comics (which is in fact a separate WordPress installation). There was no reason for this other than the fact I couldn’t get WordPress to neatly display comics [...]
Rui had been bugging me for quite a while to make her a web site and so over the last break I did my best to hack together something with WordPress that would suffice. The result is now live at rubikus.net. What’s there? Not a whole lot at the moment. Rui’s put up a couple [...]
I haven’t been happy with the ‘Issues’ category for some time and today I changed it to ‘Random’. I feel it better reflects what goes in there and also means that if I write enough about a certain topic, say law, it could break out into its own fully-fledged category without requiring me to rename [...]