As with all matters of religion, I don't care a whole lot about marriage. I wouldn't mind getting married one day, but I wouldn't object to not getting married either. It certainly isn't something that I need to do to please -- or adhere to the rules of -- an...

I've modified some of the XHTML and CSS, the two columns are now juxtaposed in Internet Explorer 5 for Mac, as they should be. The culprit was the use of the style attribute "clear", which in IE 5 for Mac is wrongly inherited by child elements, mucking up all sorts...

I found a pretty cool statistics page via MetaFilter; nationmaster.com. A few nuggets: The US has the most prisoners per capita in the world. Cyprus convicts and acquits the most people per capita. Malaysia has one jail for every three prisoners(!) Sweden does not have crimes but plenty of newspapers...

The format/API that shall not be named -- formerly known as Pie, formerly known as Echo, formerly known as Necho and (thank god) formerly known as Atom -- is finally being named. Well, sort of, the "final vote" is coming up, scheduled to start at July 31st, and to close...

I don't know about you, but I need a "pet project" of sorts to learn a language properly. Reading books is an excellent way of learning the core principles of the it, but it's when I actually sit down and complete a considerable task, i.e. a program, that I really...

I've been glancing in Python's way for a year or so now, I briefly checked it out maybe three years ago, at which point I found it interesting but not a distinctly invaluable asset. Nice, maybe later, I thought to myself. Some conversations with Lawrence led to me giving Python...

You don't have to dig very deep at BuyMusic.com, the new iTunes Music Store "me too" for Windows users, to realize that the music business is a few clues shy of an idea of who their customers are. I've already given up on the music business as a whole, they...

My previous discussions with Cheshire and Jeff on CSS ignited something of a burst of inspiration, or something to that effect. The result, as you can see, is a new design. Actually, this is not just a minor tweak as one might think or expect, the markup and the stylesheets...

In progress... Update: Still in progress... Update: Still in progress......

Governor Howard Dean has a perfectly clean slate with me: I had never heard of him before his 2004 presidential campaign. And since then, all I've read about him is a couple of entries on Lawrence Lessig's blog. Like Manuel would have said: "I know noothing". Just about what I...

This post is a bit late as this certainly is yesterdays news. However, Dave "the dolt" Winer is making it the scoop of the fucking century and I can sit quiet no longer. Let's get the facts straight: Dave Winer often writes personal attacks, unsubstantiated claims and allegations, and then...

Valve Software's Half-Life is the worlds most popular online multiplayer game. According to GameSpy's statistics, Half-Life currently has 28752 active servers, compared with the next most popular game (Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory) which has 1054 active servers. No other game on the face of the earth has more than 4000 active...

In his State of the Union address, George W. Bush claimed that Iraq had tried to buy uranium from Africa. Now, CIA Director George Tenet is getting the blame for that. Rather, he's taking the fall for it. The supposed "fault" on George Tenet's part is that he didn't "red...

In the comments on my last entry, Cheshire Dave and I had a discussion regarding the pros and cons of CSS based design as opposed to table-based ditto. At first I wrote the gist of this post as a comment to him, but figured I'd post it as a separate...

The honorable Jeff Gates has notified me on a few occasions that my site looks weird or otherwise probably-not-as-intended in IE 5.2 for Mac. For this I'm very very grateful. Thank you Jeff, again. Jeff uses a 800*600 resolution on his Mac. On his screen, the two columns in my...

I haven't been a frequentor of Adam Curry's weblog for a very long time, but from my rather brief experience he's not exactly making a lot of sense a lot of the time. A little over a week ago, the 29:th of June, he made the following assessments: It wasn't...

I saw Roman Polanski's "The Pianist" yesterday, it's the true story of the struggle for survival for a Polish pianist during the second world war. Since director Roman Polanski himself survived the holocaust in the same Warsaw ghetto that the main proponent strives to do in the movie, it's fair...

Like a lot of things, web design is like riding a bike; once you learn how to do it you just know how. Unlike riding a bike though, not everyone can learn graphical design; in order to at all know where and how to start designing, you need a certain...

Dave Winer has some confusing comments regarding the project formerly known as Echo, currently known as Necho or Not-Echo and god knows what in the future: I don't think Google wants to control blogspace. I think Evan does, and there's a disconnect. I don't like the way UserLand is omitted...

Two days ago, President George Bush tauntingly dared the Iraqi militia to attack American soldiers. He said "Bring 'em on", asserting that the US had the "force necessary" to deal with any threat. Yesterday, a US base was slammed with mortar fire, injuring 19 American soldiers. The same evening, one...

Hopefully nobody noticed, but I've changed the URL to every document on this website. The old URLs work too, but this site has officially moved from http://jogin.com/blog/ to http://jogin.com/weblog/. Other than that, documents have moved around according to the following patterns: Individual archives Used to be at: /blog/archives/000319.php Are now...