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Posts about this site, the software that runs it, &c.
A galah occasion
2005.12.29, 10:23 | Comments (8)
O, where are the antipodes of yesteryear? Returned to Western Australia on Christmas Day, land of the light and leaves and the strange vegetation – the trees lose their bark in the summer instead of their leaves in the winter.
For Randall, from Mary Jane
2005.10.26, 21:23 | Comments (4)
Some new paintings on the wall, well, one.
Real time
2005.09.26, 19:42 | Comments (1)
I’m sitting in the Apple store in Ginza
The Tony Danza of blogging
2005.05.29, 13:25 | Comments (14)
It says here that I’m a C-list blogger – which makes me, what, like the Tony Danza of blogging or something.
Comments: some tweaking
2005.02.11, 11:46 | Comments (7)
If I believed in heaven, and thought I would go there when I die, my idea of it right now would be me with a high-voltage cattle prod and a 9mm pistol standing before all the spammers of the world. They would be kneeling in a dusty courtyard, already tearful and bloody from savage beatings, and then it would be my turn.
Now comments are screwed up, too
2005.02.10, 22:27 | Comments (7)
It never rains, but it pours.
A farewell to Trackback
2005.02.09, 21:50 | Comments (9)
Talk about poisoning the well…
Performing-anxiety-inducing company
2004.12.16, 23:48 | Comments (1)
Talk about not worthy…
Happy birthday, Antipixel
2004.10.31, 12:43 | Comments (23)
Antipixel turns 3 today. I’d say something like what a long, strange trip it’s been, but it’s only a weblog.
Weekend blogger
2004.10.29, 15:44 | Comments (3)
I realised with a bit of a jolt just now that I’m turning into a weekend blogger.
Un-recent Photographs
2004.10.14, 22:12 | Comments (0)
…going through photographs from half a year ago or so can be quite relaxing
Back in Blacklist action
2004.10.11, 23:38 | Comments (4)
After a spot of trouble with MT-Blacklist and MT 3.11, I’m happy to report that everything is back in action.
Oops…
2004.09.30, 00:28 | Comments (2)
If you’re wondering why your comment hasn’t appeared yet, it’s simply because I’m a bleary-eyed idiot.
A world of firsts
2004.09.24, 01:56 | Comments (9)
Airport, new PB, and moblogging…
We now resume our irregularly-scheduled programme
2004.09.08, 07:01 | Comments (8)
Hello there and welcome back. Where were you all? ;-)
MT 3.11
2004.09.04, 12:35 | Comments (3)
Just upgraded to MT 3.11. I don’t think anything went wrong, but be on the lookout nonetheless….
Frayings
2004.08.15, 14:34 | Comments (0)
…dredging in futility our own parched wells of consciousness in the baking heat.
Comment No. 5000
2004.07.19, 14:42 | Comments (14)
And the winner is …
New job
2004.06.30, 22:17 | Comments (7)
Regular readers of this site may have noticed that I rarely talk about work and when I do, it’s in pretty oblique terms. That’s not about to change.
URLTitles
2004.05.17, 15:46 | Comments (12)
Tom Werner’s URLTitle plug-in for Movable Type is an elegant solution to an annoying unintended consequence in the fight against comment spam.
Comments are back
2004.05.10, 23:31 | Comments (2)
A fresh copy of the blacklist for MT-Blacklist seems to have cured whatever it it was that prevented comments getting posted recently.
My flabbergastation is complete
2004.03.18, 20:49 | Comments (11)
Thanks to youse all for reading
Fuji Desktops
2004.02.07, 13:25 | Comments (4)
No responsibility taken for damage or loss of eyesight through use of a bright orange desktop picture.
December Moon
2003.12.09, 18:29 | Comments (1)
I caught an astonishing moonrise tonight from the east end of Yoyogi-Uehara station. It was as big and yellow as it gets … the last warm moon for a while. We’ve got some cold ones coming up.
Love Me - Vote Early and Often
2003.12.08, 13:35 | Comments (11)
Um, can I just make a couple of announcements…?
Name That Maple
2003.11.22, 20:59 | Comments (0)
A couple of people asked me about the specific kind of momiji shown in this photograph. I was on the verge of telling you that it was Acer tenuifolia, but it turns out to be a cultivar of A. palmatum called Aoshidare.
Nothing If Not Eclectic
2003.11.12, 22:29 | Comments (4)
Every so often (OK, every day) I look down the page here and see a string of completely unrelated items masquerading as some sort of half-baked Weltanschauung and must force myself to imagine that one person’s complete and utter lack of focus is another’s vibrant eclecticism.
Big News in the Duh Department
2003.11.05, 17:18 | Comments (10)
Last Friday, October 31, Antipixel turned 2 years old and I was too busy and preoccupied to notice. This is generally a good thing, but jeez … you’d think you’d remember your own site’s birthday.
A Thousand Things to Say
2003.10.17, 21:29 | Comments (3)
A little while ago I broke the 1000 post mark on this site. That’s a bit of a surprise. Who would have thought I’d have more than a thousand things to say?
Flatlining
2003.08.17, 20:19 | Comments (7)
I took a look at the access stats for August the other day in Urchin and was surprised (and predictably dismayed) by some of the things it keeps track of. Couldn’t help but get a laugh out of this selective view of some of the data I whipped up in a spreadsheet. The story of my life.
Send This Story
2003.06.02, 11:16 | Comments (7)
Added MT’s “send this story” function to the bottom of the individual archives. I very rarely use this myself — does anyone? — but curious to see if it works.
3 Changes
2003.05.31, 22:22 | Comments (7)
Made a few changes recently based on other people’s brilliant ideas.
Edit This Page
2003.05.18, 11:56 | Comments (15)
Various ‘Edit This Page’ methods in MT
The CSS Debate: When Dinosaurs Attack!
2003.05.06, 09:35 | Comments (13)
Some people seem to be missing an important point in the CSS vs. Tables debate: it’s not an either/or proposition. Use tables for tabular data – that’s what they’re for.
Ripped Off Again! (Does The Replacement Infringe?)
2003.05.05, 12:13 | Comments (44)
Last week this site was ripped off again. Now the person who did it wants to know if their replacement design is OK. What do you think?
MT Tags in Pull-Down Menus
2003.05.03, 20:47 | Comments (17)
I get enough mail from people asking how to make the pull-down menus in the side bar that it’s probably a good idea to write it up. This is for people who are not quite as familiar with HTML and MT tags as they will be after a bit more playing around.
The Return of the Full Post RSS Feed
2003.04.17, 09:09 | Comments (7)
By popular demand (well, OK, Daniel — but he’s popular!) I’ve reinstated a full-post RSS feed in addition to excerpts and comments.
Waffle On!
2003.04.16, 22:26 | Comments (1)
Jesper wrote to say that there was a little trouble with his moving the server to Linux which meant people couldn’t post questions after the interview he did with me. Everything’s fixed, and now you can post questions and, by golly, I’ll even answer them.
As a bonus, Jesper’s cunningly typeset the interview so that there are now ASCII pictures of naked people doing things throughout the text (squint and turn your head slightly to one side).
Crashing Bore
2003.04.14, 22:35 | Comments (9)
I hate it when I crash other people’s browsers…
The Return of the Header Image
2003.04.12, 11:36 | Comments (6)
Thanks, Blanco!
Under the Iron
2003.04.09, 12:06 | Comments (9)
Jesper Lindholms of Waffle is starting a series of “interviews with web designers, yahoos and people” and I’m the first victim — er, subject!
The Business of Blogging
2003.04.06, 11:09 | Comments (11)
We’ve got big things planned around here, shareholders! Aggressive union busting, Enron-style accounting, we’re moving all production to China, and tough austerity measures are being implemented (I’ll be panelling the auxillary jacuzzis in Japanese cypress rather than mahogany).
Advice on Starting a Blog
2003.03.14, 13:03 | Comments (2)
Erik of NSLog(); has some good advice on starting a weblog
A Quick Toot
2003.03.05, 12:30 | Comments (11)
I know you’re not supposed to do this, but one must blow the cobwebs out of one’s trumpet every now and then.
Variations on a Round of Applause
2003.03.01, 14:11 | Comments (5)
Bravo to Mike and Nadine for organising a great gathering of Tokyo bloggers at the Pink Cow in Harajuku last night.
Tokyo Bloggers’ Party
2003.02.27, 11:55 | Comments (0)
Don’t forget the Tokyo Bloggers’ Party tomorrow night at The Pink Cow in Harajuku.
MT Plug-in Directory
2003.01.25, 22:45 | Comments (1)
Excellent directory for Movable Type plug-ins.
Help with Bookmarklets
2003.01.24, 12:38 | Comments (18)
Anyone figured out how to get MT’s “Post to MT” bookmarklets working in Chimera or Safari when pop-ups have been disabled?
BackTrackability
2003.01.20, 14:28 | Comments (0)
Backtrack is a foot-stompingly clever way to forge links back along outbound TrackBack pings.
Trackbackability
2003.01.19, 22:46 | Comments (11)
Antipixel is now, the gods willing, TrackBackable.
What’s It About?
2003.01.18, 14:15 | Comments (11)
Caught flatfooted by a seemingly innocent question.
Meeting Ben and Mena
2003.01.18, 13:51 | Comments (4)
I got to meet Ben and Mena Trott at last night’s Tokyo MT users gathering. Thanks to Neoteny for hosting the event!
Visits By Browser
2003.01.17, 16:54 | Comments (8)
Browser stats: visits by browser, Jan 1st to 14th.
Tokyo MT Users Gathering: What Gives?
2003.01.16, 13:03 | Comments (5)
Anyone know what’s going on tomorrow with the Tokyo MT Users gathering? I RSVP’d but haven’t heard anything since…
Farewell to TWICS
2003.01.16, 12:58 | Comments (0)
No more twics.com for me, folks. It’s the end of an era.
Parsermancy
2003.01.12, 23:58 | Comments (12)
Yet another IE fix… this time for good, I hope.
Buttons and Boxes and Forms Redux
2003.01.11, 15:27 | Comments (17)
“Buttons and Boxes and Forms” revisisted: our collective thinking pays off! Mena Trott says the next version of Movable Type will ship with the changes suggested in the article.
Reversing the Post/Comment Paradigm
2003.01.11, 14:59 | Comments (20)
The standard blog arrangement where something gets posted and then people comment on that post (or not) is all fine and dandy, but lately I’ve been thinking that there should be some way for people to write here without having to respond to anything. Sort of like a suggestion box. Only not just for suggestions. And not a box. You get the idea.
NetNewsWire 1.0b1
2002.12.22, 15:08 | Comments (1)
Apparently it’s not enough that Brent Simmons has changed the way I read the web. Now he’s going to change…
Kanji Months
2002.12.05, 12:45 | Comments (18)
Someone did a search here recently for the names of the months in Japanese (kanji). Here they are, along with the days of the week.
Search Requests
2002.11.24, 22:10 | Comments (8)
People search for funny things, and your site can inadvertantly become a Google favourite based on casual mentions of the most banal things. But really, strap-ons?
Buttons and Boxes and Forms
2002.11.15, 18:38 | Comments (43)
Join in won’t you as we enter the maelstrom of form design and usability.
Smart Quotes Wizardry
2002.11.14, 08:32 | Comments (4)
John Gruber releases SmartyPants 1.0, a free and wonderful MT plug-in that brings a semblance of typographic sanity to your entries.
RSS Debaucheries
2002.11.10, 01:35 | Comments (2)
RSS feed changes: if you’re subscribed to index_short.rdf, I need to ask you to change over to index.xml. Sorry for the hassle. If you’re subscribed to index.xml, you don’t need to do anything. You can also subscribe to a comments feed now, if you want to keep up with what’s going on in more detail.
Colophon
2002.11.09, 15:33 | Comments (0)
A link to Antipixel’s credits page.
Ripped Off!
2002.11.08, 17:07 | Comments (8)
If you’re going to rip someone off, at least have some imagination. Sheesh!
A Couple of Changes
2002.11.07, 21:52 | Comments (18)
Antipixel: now with logo-clickin’ font-sizin’ fun.
A Small Milestone
2002.11.05, 22:40 | Comments (18)
Comments now outnumber posts here, which is a good thing.
Happy Birthday to Antipixel
2002.11.01, 00:01 | Comments (9)
One year old today.
Remembering Info
2002.10.29, 00:11 | Comments (10)
The “Remember info” button on comment forms seems to work now. Apologies for it not doing so previously. Took me…
Yet Another test
2002.10.28, 21:52 | Comments (6)
OK… if this doesn’t work I’m sellng everything and moving to a desert island. I’ve been looking for an excuse….
Help! Installing MT Locally on OS X
2002.10.27, 13:58 | Comments (11)
Update: I figured it out. Site and archive paths have to be specified using /Library/WebServer/Documents/[subDirectory] rather than any other method…
IE6 Users, Stay With Me!
2002.10.24, 15:25 | Comments (7)
Aaargh! Getting reports that IE6 on the PC isn’t displaying the column layout here properly. Stay with me won’t you,…
Incipient Alzheimer’s
2002.10.24, 13:04 | Comments (0)
Incipient Alzheimer’s disease is the only explanation I can come up with for some of the dumb things I do….
Rebuilded
2002.10.18, 17:50 | Comments (2)
Unsurprisingly, everything was my fault. I’m using the extremely handy MTSanitize plug-in to limit what HTML can appear in comments,…
Enstricticating MT
2002.10.18, 12:45 | Comments (4)
A couple of edits you seem to have to make to MT 2.5 to get it producing strict XHTML 1.0.
So What’s New?
2002.10.18, 03:05 | Comments (20)
A new look but hopefully that same old feel. Here are some things that somehow got done over the…
Antipixel 2: Are We There Yet?
2002.10.18, 01:53 | Comments (8)
First post to Antipixel 2
MT 2.5
2002.10.14, 01:37 | Comments (1)
I can’t believe how easy it is to set up the search in MT 2.5. Just got to finish up…
I’m SQL’d
2002.10.13, 21:37 | Comments (0)
Looks like I’m SQL’d. I’d say that was bloody easy but I don’t want to speak too soon. Let’s give…
Am I SQL’d?
2002.10.13, 21:32 | Comments (0)
Just tried to change over to MySQL again. Everything went absolutely fine – as it did last time. The errors…
ActiveX Errors
2002.10.12, 13:16 | Comments (2)
I thought I’d be smart and embed a short audio file in the page but some people got ActiveX errors….
Anniversaries
2002.10.10, 16:40 | Comments (8)
Changes are afoot here. In fact, changes are afeet. Things are going on. Late in the month sees Antipixel’s…
“Quote” Test: Let’s Try This
2002.09.02, 22:01 | Comments (0)
I’ll elaborate on this nonsense in just a minute: need to see if it works first. “The quick brown fox,”…
Yoicks!
2001.11.13, 11:25 | Comments (0)
Yi! Making a change in the comment settings in MT seems to wipe out existing comments.
Search works
2001.11.02, 18:18 | Comments (0)
OK. The search seems to work. I got the Atomz templates looking reasonable, I hope. It’s the freebie version (of…
Comments are Go
2001.11.01, 02:39 | Comments (2)
Turned the comment system on in that last post, by the way. If I add another paragraph here it helps…
Where are we?
2001.11.01, 02:26 | Comments (0)
Not sure why I’m unable to get to sleep before 3am these days but anyway, it’s quiet, it’s peaceful,…
Midnight
2001.11.01, 00:00 | Comments (0)
This being Halloween, there has to be a post right on midnight. Let’s see how close I get this….
Halloween Debut
2001.10.31, 23:01 | Comments (0)
I think it’s been about 4 years since I had any personal pages on the web (back in the days…
Testing… one, two, three
2001.10.31, 22:49 | Comments (0)
Test post. You can safely ignore this :)
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