Whose responsibility is it, in the wake of Typepad’s pulling out its own plug any day now, to maintain those links? It is sad, for sure, that they simply issued an ultimatum to all the writers who gave them “content”. Some may well choose to relocate. Many probably will not. And some that ought to k...

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A couple of days ago a strange error on one of my websites suggested I look at php_error.log for a deeper understanding of the problem. The deeper understanding eluded me, but I did notice just how many errors there were. I had never before had to pay attention to these things and now I was upset, not least by my ignorance of what to do.

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Painted wall at the Library of Congress with the quote from Pope, A little learning is a dangerous thing, drink deep or taste not of the Pierian spring.

At the Library of Congress, they understood

In yesterday’s monthly post I teased about not being able to talk about “the thing that hijacked this update” because it happened in the current month. Here’s the story.

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The subtitles over at Eat This Podcast were really tiny, which somehow I had not noticed before. A WP plugin called Subtitles is responsible, and reading the FAQs I discovered that it injects its CSS directly inline. To replace with my own CSS I would need to block the plugin’s CSS from loading...

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An archive of some of the data I have recorded about how I spend some of my time.

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