If you’re one of the many right-minded geeks who uses Emacs, you have an advantage over those who use less-flexible text editors. Anyone staring at code all day long will soon suffer from tired eyes. If you use Emacs, though, you can use a macro that I wrote that may help alleviate the problem.
I’ve used WordPress for a couple of months now, and so far I really like it. It’s free, it’s pretty easy to set up, it’s extensible, and the WordPress user community has created a huge number of really great WordPress themes and plug-ins. In all, WordPress does a really good job of helping you publish and syndicate content.
If you have an existing web site and you’re adding WordPress to it, then you probably have a set of static pre-WordPress web pages that look completely different from your blog. Here’s a quick guide that shows you how to migrate those static web pages so that they use your currently selected WordPress template.
I recently updated the web pages for my Java applets so that you don’t need to click to activate an applet before using it. You can go here to read the gory details about why most browsers now force you to click to activate controls and applets. I knew that it was possible to work around the problem, but when I went looking for a quick answer on the Web I was surprised at how hard it was to find a simple explanation of the problem and a concise example that demonstrated how to solve it. I hope that this post will help fill that gap.
I believe the human mind is tuned to appreciate fractals. Many natural phenomena exhibit well-defined fractal dimensions, so it seems reasonable that we should evolve neural circuitry that feels at ease when exposed to fractal scenes in views of clouds, mountains, or forests.
“First post!” it cried
For immortality it tried
Wasting bits and thought
Expended all for naught
Though playfulness is there
and joy of being square;
small drip among the stream
of culture we all dream
When someday they are dead,
forgetting it was read,
will change have been in you
creating good and new?
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