Google just came out with their own version of the "Like" button.  I'm testing it on my website.  Please help me by clicking on the "+1" button.

This is Google's third or fourth attempt to chip away at Facebook.  Will it work?  Hard to say.  

I know, it's been a while.  I've been busy.  I've actually been taking fewer photos so my backlog won't grow as quickly.  In fact, I don't think I've posted any new photos since Nathan's birthday.

A recent XKCD comic claimed that if you click through Wikipedia articles long enough, you end up on the article for philosphy.  Sometimes such claims are true, and sometimes it's XKCD making a joke that's funny because it sounds plausible, but still has a ridiculous result.  So, let's test this theory.  The exact rules are as follows:

I recently blogged about switching web hosts.  6 weeks into it, I'm still pretty happy with Hostgator, they're a lot more Drupal-friendly, even with the cheapest hosting package (which is cheaper than Powweb).  I've had a couple reliability issues, and they say that's what you get on a shared server, but Hostgator still advertises 99.99% uptime and I haven't been getting that in the past couple weeks.  And it freaked out a client, which is not cool.

I'll be giving a lecture tomorrow at Hastings on Open Source and its implications for scientific research.  It's free and open to the public.  

Come hear me speak tomorrow at 198 McAllister, Room K.

More info: http://ucsf-hastingsconsortium.org/event/open-source-implications-scientific-research

Yes, I'm going to talk about the royal wedding.  The outfits, no less.  I'm more interested in the men's uniforms, of course, but first a tip of the hat has to go to Princess Kate's dress, which was an obvious homage to American actress Grace Kelly, who also married into European royalty.  In another apparent homage to the United States, Kate had a Maid of Honor, which apparently isn't usually done in England.  Classy.

 This is the third part of a series of posts on webfonts.  See also Part I and Part II.

Journey with me, into the depths of nerddom.  Today we'll be talking about webfonts from the 18th and 19th century.

This is the second part of a series of posts on webfonts.  See also Part I and Part III.

I previously wrote about how cool webfonts are.  But I didn't talk about the technical side - where they come from, how to get them.  When I was doing my own research, I couldn't find basic instructions on how to use webfonts.  Maybe that's because they're not hard to use, but I still think an introduction is useful.  So, here it is.

This is the first part of a series of posts on webfonts.  See also Part II and Part III.

I wrote previously about getting away from Powweb and how happy I was to do so.  So far, the tech support at Hostgator has been MUCH better, and their Drupal support is pretty good too.  There are a couple things that are not as good; I can't change the PHP memory limit, and the basic account limits me to one domain, which makes it harder to do Drupal multisite.  But it is still possible - here's how.