Will Self’s imitation of Dorian Gray got a bit repetitive for me so I started on a murder mystery Mum lent me that’s written from the perspective of a boy with Asperger’s. It ‘s so satisfying to sometimes read a book where […]

Clay Shirky has an interesting point in his response to the MT debacle: The dilemma for people who build communal tools is this: if you want something that hooks people emotionally, you cannot have rational users, and vice-versa. And when you build […]

We don’t really celebrate graduations en masse in Norway, well, except PhD graduations, I suppose, so last week I was astonished to hear Pomp and Circumstance played as the graduates walked in (the most familiar part of the melody on repeat) and […]

In a discussion of anti-spam remedies over at Grandtextauto, Nick argues that attacking spam by crippling blogs and other arenas for public discussion is not solving anything: instead we should devise anti-spam tactics that penalise the spammers. Wouldn’t that be brilliant? I’m […]

If you complain to US Airways about being on the Selectee list, the form letter you receive in return (PDF available from EPIC) includes the following comfort: CAPPS is a government administered computer application that operates in the background of our reservations […]

Christopher Allbritton is back in Iraq. He’s the freelance journalist who collected $15000 in donations and went to Iraq to report directly in his blog last March. His posts will no doubt be interesting, but oh dear, I hope he doesn’t get […]

Wow. Nobody from US immigration actually checks your passport when you leave the country. Every other country I’ve ever left has immigration do this, but in the US, they leave it to the airlines. I guess in my case the check-in guy […]

I just almost bought Moveable Type 3.0 for jill/txt. Regardless of how long I keep using Moveable Type, I figured I’ve certainly had enough pleasure and use from it that I’m willing to pay $70. The teaching blogs I can figure out […]

In a wonderful use of trackbacks, Mena Trott’s asking us to tell them how we use Moveable Type. Here’s how I use it – mostly for teaching, but also in my personal blog.

There was an S on my boarding pass today. S for Search, S for Suspicious; I’m not sure what it stands for but when there’s an S on your boarding pass they’ll single you out and search you specially. A friendly check […]