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end of november

My problem is that I find everything… increasingly interesting. I can’t imagine where that is going to go. Maybe when I’m older I’ll just gape at everything in wonder. You could do worse, really. William Gibson, in conversation with Cory … more…

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business as usual during alterations

I’m remodelling the site theme again: innsmouth is becoming a sort of step-child theme of twentyten, the new WordPress 3.0 default. Some features are going to look a little strange while I chase down the more specialised stylings (many of … more…

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Looking back on the spike

I finally got around to looking at the stats, and here’s a capture of the Perelman spike from back in March. Each horizontal division is a week’s worth of visits. Spiky, innit?

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HTML 5, further still

Ooo-okay then: there’s good news, and there’s, well, there’s Internet Explorer. First the good news – I have located an honest-to-goodness (if “highly experimental”) HTML5 validator, and after whacking a few niggly bits, we are now officially valid HTML 5 … more…

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HTML 5 upgrade, further

I just took a look at the page through the peculiar perspective of a slightly elderly PC running WinXP. I had realised that Windows’ screen rendering is harsh and approximate, but I was faintly amused to note that the single … more…

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HTML 5 upgrade

Screenshot, before this was posted. Obviously. Right, so I’ve rewritten the theme files for the blog, migrating to HTML 5 conventions. The result, by the way, is much leaner code: the total weight of the new version is down from … more…

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greatest hits

Since crying off from the ‘greatest hits’ notion on the occasion of this blog’s eighth anniversary earlier this last month, it has come to my notice that there are exactly ten posts here which have attracted more than 1,000 visits. … more…

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eighth

Enthusiasm became a blog eight years ago today. Last year I put up non-functional facsimiles of the blog as it originally appeared, and the last version of the enthusiasm page before it became a blog. This year I had thought … more…

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Tab Mix Plus

Further to my recent tweet, it turns out that Firefox never actually had an “open in foreground tab” contextual menu item to call its own. I’d forgotten (if I ever knew) that the feature was owed to the Tab Mix … more…

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back soon

I know, I say this almost as often as I say anything else around here — but I’ve been a bit preoccupied with something I should be able to announce within a small number of days now. Once that’s done, … more…

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