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I think that *case-preserving, case-insensitivity* is, almost always, the optimal behaviour. This may be somewhat controversial, so let me explain my position.

War-story about a word processor

In this article, I describe three separate issues with the handling of Sections and Headings in modern typesetting tools. I propose a dull but important change to markup languages to deal with these issues. This proposal is not particularly innovative, but just better engineered. Then I mention a new problem that I only just noticed, and propose an innovative new feature that would be way cool.

With Brainsnorkel experimenting with Writely, I thought it was about time that I evaluated Ecto as I promised a month ago. I am going to talk almost exclusively about the user-experience rather than the features of the tool. Why? Because that’s the reason I am giving it the thumbs-down after only the briefest trials. It […]

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I upgraded my Motherboard BIOS today without incident.

I need a guide to the way RAID controllers work.

The password management facilities of three common browsers are compared and contrasted

A look at whether Information Theory supports the idea of a mandate from the Australian electorate

1500 mouse-clicks at 5 second intervals = over 2 hours of mouse-clicking.