It's official, I guess. Norm Pattis is blogging no more. Scott Greenfield was way ahead of the pack on this, but I couldn't tell how serious it was. It turns out Norm really does plan to study Greek. In what I guess is his typical don't-give-a-damn approach, Norm hasn't just stopped blogging, he's taken down his blog. Not only is everything he wrote gone, but he's broken all … [Read more...] about ‘Bye, Norm.
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Trying to Work Around The Captcha Problem
Some of you who've tried to leave comments have probably noticed that it doesn't work very well. The Captcha codes---those annoying strange characters you have to type---just aren't working right. This is a bizarre and frustrating bit of misbehavior out of the Movable Type blogging engine. So much of it normally works so well.I've disabled Captcha codes for now, and I'm trying … [Read more...] about Trying to Work Around The Captcha Problem
Agitator Meet-Up
I went to the Agitator meet-up tonight and finally got to meet Radley Balko. I've been reading his stuff for a while, and I really admire the work he did on the Cory Maye case. The meetup wasn't exactly huge. Only a handful of people showed, and only two of us weren't already friends of Radley's, proving that just because someone is a star in libertarian circles doesn't mean … [Read more...] about Agitator Meet-Up
My Birthday Wishes – 2008
My birthday's coming up on the 26th, and I just wanted to share my Amazon wishlist in case anyone out there really loves me! [DELETED] (There should be an Amazon widget above this line. I'm curious if it works in a blog post.) Update: I've deleted the wishlist because it no longer linked to the right stuff. … [Read more...] about My Birthday Wishes – 2008
New! Big! Photos!
As the resolution of computer monitors creeps up, the visual size of pixel-dimensioned page content has been shrinking, and web designers have been tweaking pages to compensate for the changes. For example, when I first started posting my photography on this site, I would size the images to have a maximum dimension of 400 pixels. A while ago, I resized photos to 450 … [Read more...] about New! Big! Photos!