OddThinking

Whatever happened to Reverse Polish Notation (RPN)? Progress! That’s what!

Here’s a little challenge for the software developers.

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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A magic trick for C programmers to try,

I upgraded my Motherboard BIOS today without incident.

Tell others about the underlying blog technology? Why, it’s all the fashion amongst the blogging crowd.

The more things change, the less happy I am with BASIC line numbers.

Starting today, I am starting Beta Testing of My First WordPress Plugin: EmailShroud.