Michael Jackson is a poor sob if there ever was one. Every week, day, or hour, someone makes allegations about Jackson which everyone seems to just assume to be true without any verification or proof there of, because "he is weird after all". People cling to the theory of him...

I've been saying so for a while but today I finally got my act together and updated to Movable Type version 2.64, and installed the spam-thwarter plugin MT-Blacklist. No more comment spam. I'm happy. Spammers have increasingly delighted themselves in spreading their comment spam excrement around my site, which I...

As most of you have already heard, Los Angeles county has sent e-mail to local technology vendors, urging them to stop referring to harddrives as "master" and "slave", due to the racial diversity of LA. This is, of course, a very serious problem, but I'm skeptical that using different terms...

Swedish bloggers Steffanie and Jenny have written a Bachelor's thesis (PDF in Swedish) on blogging and the Internet as a platform for discussions in the public sphere. They've examined the value of discussions on Swedish weblogs from a democratic standpoint and have come to the conclusion that the discussions held...

Grabbing the opportunity by the balls, the Brittish newspaper The Guardian published an article of letters from their readers, addressed to the US president subsequently to his state visit. One of the letters were from Salam Pax, the Baghdad blogger, here's a passage: You have spilled a glass full of...

I used to write a lot about George W. Bush. Things he said, things he did, things like that. But it got repetetive, because George W. Bush is repetitive. Very repetitive. Repeating the same message over and over again was enough to fool the gist of the American people into...

Once in a while, someone does something really different, something really innovative. Upon closer inspection though, it seems like the most obvious thing in the world, you can't for the life of you understand why it wasn't always like this.. I mean, this is how it was supposed to be, all along.

In the event that somebody would have told me, roughly two years ago, that they knew for sure that I within the next two years would buy kittens for a sum of money I otherwise could have bought a very nice 32-inch widescreen TV for, I would have had a...

I've said it before and I'll say it again, every new version of Photoshop introduces new features which I, in hindsight, can't for the life of me understand how I ever managed without them. The "shadow and highlight" feature, which is just one of the many additions in Photoshop CS,...

Jay Allen is going head-on with weblog comment spamming, first with his MT-Blacklist plugin and now with his latest project, Blam. Although I haven't installed MT-Blacklist yet, that hasn't stopped me from understanding the benefits offered by the plugin. MT-Blacklist is what you expect it to be, a spam-ridding plugin...

It's time for that once-a-year thing again, I'm twenty-four today. I have no problem with age; I've never really looked forward to any age, nor have I ever wanted to be younger than I am. Although, I'm glad the big twenty-five is a full year away. Geesh, twenty-five in one...

All things considered, I think Matrix Revolutions was a pretty good ending to the Matrix "saga". As expected though, it suffers from poor kung-fu, poor acting, an overly simple plot and lack of character depth. Maybe they were just better at conceiling it in Reloaded, because the awkward stiff kung-fu...