OK, WordPress has a new version, so I ported one of my favorite projects The Chessmill to it. The new “pages” system looked like it was going to work. Regular readers know I’ve been using Mambo — no, this doesn’t mean I’m moving away from it. I still use it; I just don’t like depending […]
Stopped in for a while ay Wikkipedia (There’s no link because it’s not worth it). Here’s the basic concept, see if you can spot the flaw: Everyone is an expert on something, so everyone is welcome to write/edit an entry in this conglomeration. That way we can take advantage of the collective knowledge of the […]
The rise of the mega-book. Susanna Clarke’s first novel has a good sales run at the moment, and it’s up for Hugo. With some difficulty, I read it. Well, perhaps “read it” is too strong a term. At several points along the way, my eyes frankly glazed over, and I skipped pages. An actual page […]