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This is a great piece by Andy Baio on the dangers to anonymous bloggers using Google Analytics.

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 [...]

So I’m reading this article in Edge magazine and I just have to stop. The interviewer is doing their best but the corporate blow-hard on the other end just won’t stop using words like ‘amazing’ and ‘blown away’ while he dodges questions and repeats corporate spin. The snookering of the media by corporate and political [...]

I wrote almost a month ago about a service called coComment. At the time I found it almost a great service, my main complaint being that there was no way to set blacklists for certain domains (eg. LiveJournal) so that it wouldn’t bother tracking those comments. Well I wrote two posts about this on the [...]

I really would like to write a recommendation for coComment. It has solved one of the biggest frustrations I have with reading blogs and it’s done it all with an unobstrusive Firefox extension. I would like to do this but I can’t. What I’ll do instead is to explain not only what it does that’s so [...]

Well I promised I was going to do something for a while and here it is. I’ve thrown out the old inqk.net blog and replaced it with a new one. My apologies if you’ve come here looking for a particular link and it’s now gone. I’m in two minds about whether or not it’s worth [...]