While poking around in my blog stats, I noticed something peculiar: quite a few people are now finding my site by googling “nazi swastika.” I thought this was weird because the only thing about it I’ve ever written was the entry I posted on June 9th – a mere 2 days ago – about Nazi [...]
asides
Why would someone do this?
I read in the daily newspaper today that over 100 headstones and monuments in one of the local cemeteries were knocked over last night, many of them completely destroyed. Many of them were knocked over and then purposefully smashed, most likely with a sledge. Some of them dated back to the 1800s. Why would someone [...]
CSS on WordPress.com has disappeared
Just a note to anyone visiting my site directly: I haven’t gone insane and reverted the look to plain text on white. A bunch of WordPress.com blogs are having the same issue. We bought the CSS upgrade; the custom CSS is still in the Presentation area; but our blogs aren’t actually showing it.
So, worry not. [...]
Remember: Enable ClearType in Windows XP!
I just came across this entry, which reminded me that I hadn’t enabled ClearType yet on the computer I usually blog from. If you don’t know what I’m talking about, go to that entry and learn. You’ll thank me for it. ClearType makes the text in Windows so much prettier. Less stressful on the eyes, [...]
The end of the universe – what’s there?
Sitting here browsing various blogs, something just popped into my head: what’s the end of the universe like? Does it even exist? Let’s say in theory, we had a spacecraft that could move fast enough and far enough to reach the ‘edge of the universe’. What would be there? A wall? A sign that says [...]
