actuality.log

Come on, admit it. You’ll feel much better.
Warning: The following is a severe test of your attention span. You might want to grab a cup of coffee or whatever beverage it […]

Isn’t it about time we refilled that section of the karma pot?
I write:
Hello Amanda,
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This is just a filler post. Real material will resume tomorrow. (Or is that much later today?)
There was a feature request for delineate the other day that wanted the posts vertically […]

People usually don’t like it when I copy and paste something I wrote elsewhere. But I haven’t done this in a while, so grin and bear it. Cheers.
The following was written […]

For all my bitching, I think it’s ironic that the new image thumbnails you see on the right (→) (now moved to the sitemap) are pretty buzzword compliant. They’re rendered dynamically (DHTML), using delineate’s feed (RSS) which is neatly categorised (tagged), via a […]

I absolutely hate the fact that there is an entire meta-blogging industry out there run by these so-called experienced web gurus. These are the supposedly “early” (circa 2004) adopters of technology, and they pretty much get off on writing about writing, or […]

“Though intellectually stimulating, working on fundamental theories can often feel like a thankless task. Results which don’t align with common experience and intuition we’re sceptical of and eager to dismiss, and those that do seem apparent and consistently underwhelm.” — Me, 2005
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And we all know that I can’t write when not on my computer. So eye decided to clean up delineate again. Now categorised thumbnails, temporal archives, and even a gimmicky link to a random image work. Plus, the annoying names of next and […]

Normal people can just close this browser tab and come back another time.
If you’re a geek (like this site’s author) and frequent it for juicy tidbits on geeky things, I know […]

When I was a kid, I was a huge fan of science fiction literature. Books that frequently featured in my reading-lists included works by Isaac Asimov and Arthur C. Clarke. I can safely say—and I kid you not—I’ve read over 95% of everything […]