It always makes me happy when I stumble upon a site like Ian Johnston’s johnstonia. Johnston, a retired university instructor, has put tons of his own teaching and research materials online as well as many original tranlations of classics including Descartes Discourse on Method, The Oresteia, and the first four books of The Odyssey. And [...]

Here’s a screen shot of MacOS 7.5.3 running on my WinXP laptop via the wonderment that is Basilisk. If you’d like to do the same, you’ll also need a copy of HFVExplorer, which lets you create virtual mac hard drives under windows and move files back and forth between the platforms. And you can score [...]

A List Apart has a great article on a new method of style sheet switching. I can’t wait to try it out.

The title of today’s post derives from a famously bad prediction made by Bill Gates. I’ve been feeling the sting of Windows XP’s seemingly insatiable hunger for RAM recently. My wife and I both have Dell laptops. Her’s has 384MB of RAM and runs just fine. Mine shipped with 256MB, which was plenty for my [...]

Evidently, banning gay marriages isn’t enough in Alabama. Now Representative Gerald Allen wants to ban gay characters in novels or any other work that that’s part of the “homosexual agenda” (at least in public and university libraries). Shouldn’t legislators be required to have read the constitution? Or, at least, the bill of rights. That first [...]