Category Archives: enthusiasm
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…
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?
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
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…
compliments of the season
You’ll (urk) be wanting a peaceful [$HOLIDAY] and a prosperous new year about now. No really, I am – contrary to most non-appearances – still here, but a bit distracted and possibly it’s better that way. Back soon.
WordPress I love you (but you’re bringing me down)
Well, that was scary. Sometime yesterday, something very strange happened to this blog. At first, all was well for the visitor; the site was readable, comments were doing what comments ought to do, but I couldn’t log in to the … more…