Sometimes my dreams stay with me in daylight. I dream of friends and family, of my lover and of people whose blogs I read but whom I’ve never met. They’re all themselves but different. I wander my dreams like K. searching for […]

Now that there’s more images in the standard layout, of course, my photos look different. Hm.

The purple capsicum glowed in the sunlight that rushed in through my kitchen window, but when I sliced it open its inside was light, light green. When sautÈed the purple paled until the slices of capsicum looked like thick, dumb worms.

Frank Schaap is my hero. He tidied my rather diverse margin-left, right and centres (as it were), suggested a slightly different font that apparently will actually look good on all browsers (sadly my beloved old Verdana size=”medium” really doesn’t look that great […]

Oh, what the heck. This new design isn’t finished, but it’s getting there and I’m having fun with it and I’ll just fix it as I go. I’ll keep publishing the old design as old.html at least until this design stabilises, so […]

The BBC World Service program on weblogging is out, and you can listen to it at The Word‘s site. I think it’ll only be available for a week, so listen now! It’s 27 minutes, and includes interviews with Hossein Derakhshan, an Iranian, […]

Though round-edged boxes and columns that go all the way down do require disappointingly complicated CSS (using little images makes it feel like cheating) I’ve actually managed to build most of my new design much faster than I’d expected. There are some […]

How to make the background colour in a CSSed column stretch all the way down: use an image. Sigh. I thought the point of CSS was not having to use hacks and single-pixel gifs and all that nonsense. Though perhaps this is […]

I live in a housing corporation, a borettslag, with about a hundred households and a board and a caretaker and concerned neighbours who once I got past thinking them busybodies turn out to be caring, helpful and supportive. The general assembly’s next […]

How to make round cornered boxes in CSS, based on this sliding doors principle.