Word Dump

Mental note to self: add these to my ever-growing loot-list—

The Earthsea Trilogy by Ursula K. Le Guin (hardbound)
Read the first few pages and you’ll get hooked. That to me is a real test of whether a book should merit few more hours of my waking life.
Exploring the Matrix: Visions of the Cyber-Present edited by Karen [...]

The widgets on my blog are misbehaving.
You see the sidebars? That’s not really how they’re supposed to look like. Some of the elements, like the meta and the extra pages widget, aren’t supposed to be there. And since I can’t get to the code behind all this, it’s hard to remove those errant page elements. [...]

My answer to this is: yes, if you already have an idea what a blog is.
Or if you can competently navigate any website—any website at all. Or if you already know what commands like right click, select, copy-paste mean and what teeny muscular acrobatics your right hand performs throughout. Can you also absorb new information [...]

Now this is more like it.
Back in March, when I was rediscovering blogging and was looking for a good blogging tool, I laid down my verdict on the old Friendster Blogs: I didn’t like it. The interface was too clumsy and counter-intuitive. Too many buttons and tabs to click just to get to the next [...]