After more than fifteen years of loyal LiveJournal use, I have switched to Dreamwidth as my primary blogging site. All of my LiveJournal entries have been migrated to flwyd.dreamwidth.org. They remain public on flwyd.livejournal.com as well, so as not to break any links. I will continue crossposting from Dreamwidth to LiveJournal until LJ blocks ( Read more... )

This weekend I created a Dreamwidth account and copied all my LiveJournal posts there. I plan to use Dreamwidth for future composition, automatically crossposted to LiveJournal. I don't plan to delete any LJ content, and you can leave comments on either site. I'll still read my LJ friends page and will cultivate new connections on DW. For ( Read more... )

Long before web comics were "a thing," my mom would often respond to my puns with a groan (she was a groan up, after all) by telling me to write it down and start a comic in the vein of The Far Side. My graphic arts skills are very limited, but if they weren't, I might have produced something like Prooffreader's Whimsy. The first few comics ( Read more... )

Inspired by a recent comment at work, I propose the optimal length of a blog post (or email or most any writing):

As short as possible and as long as necessary.

Twitter is so great because it makes you practice the former.

I just used Google Reader Play and holy atom feed, that's the best user experience for informative time wasting I've seen in a long time. Snippets from Reader users' most-liked items, highlighting images both beautiful and informative. If you already use Google Reader, it'll take your own likes into account. If you've never used Google Reader, ( Read more... )

The Internet is full of good blogs and you've got plenty to read already I'm sure, but you should consider adding bruce_schneier to your regular reads. An expert in security (particularly in computing), his posts are regularly well-written pieces that point out subtle ways in which we (society) think about security. His is an important voice in the face of " ( Read more... )

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