I went ahead and officially retired from Debian today. It's something I probably ought to have done a while ago, but have been putting off. I've had some great times with Debian and met a lot of good people. Debian is also where I really got my...

I'm the last person in the world to have much of anything to say about visual design, but this one is so blatant that even I can't help but notice: See the big blue button in the same place? In one case, it is a 'sign up' button, in the other it is...

My wife is having dinner with the baby at her parents', so I took a moment to do a bit of pure, pointless, fun hacking after reading a discussion of which emacs gui features to turn off on a site I frequent. I turn off the tool bar and the scroll bar...

One of the reasons why I created Squeezed Books was to "deflate" some of the hot air present in many business books, so I particularly enjoyed The Economist's cynical take on "management gurus": The three habits of highly irritating management gurus ...

It took me a while to get the September update of LangPop.com out. The reason: I had to redo the book statistics. Previously, I got those from Amazon's web service, which worked ok as far as those things go. However, recently, I ran into several...