Category Archives: Weblogs

March On

Well, it’s the end of March, which was the deadline that I gave myself for getting version Six.0 of this site all put together and ready for public consumption. The last major chunk of work that needed to be taken care of was importing the 200-plus remaining posts from 2002. This was probably more difficult than it needed to be.

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Typist

dollarshort.orgThis is my second Movable Type post in less than a week, but that’s because this product is amazing. Not being much of a CGI monkey, I paid the folks over at Movable Type to install it for me, which they did in less than six hours and for a mere twenty bucks. That’s terrific enough, but the software itself also happens to be remarkably robust — just take a look at these screen shots. It’s really hard to believe they give it away free. (Actually, the authors depend on a donation system.) It’s been a blast tinkering with it, and it’s definitely set me on the path of redesigning Subtraction.com. Soon.

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Movable Feast

dollarshort.orgBlogger is great, but it has its limitations. So I’ve been seriously considering switching over to Ben and Mena Trott’sMovable Type. The more I look at it, the more impressed I am by this grass-roots content management system, especially by the fact that it’s run entirely by a husband-wife team. The wife, Mena, also happens to be a terrific designer, as evidenced by her beautiful personal site, dollarshort.org. All this has me thinking: it’s about time for Subtraction.com to move up to version 6.0.

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Dear Diary

So I’ve been thinking of keeping a journal for some time, of recording my thoughts and posting regular entries to my Web site. A few things have been driving this idea.

The most obvious rationale is this recent sea-change in my life. My relocation to Singapore has been nontrivial – it’s a big deal in fact, at least to me. I’ve been reckoning with an immense docket of changes and challenges. All of which seem like ideal fodder for posterity; an amateur writer in me feels compelled to record what I can.

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