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Not that anyone has noticed, but for what it’s worth, our official code cleanup to validate against XHTML 1.0 Strict started on January 1, and the bulk of the site is now validating to Strict vs. the previous 1.0 Transitional. I updated the headers today, so the link in the lower right sidebar for [...]

Okay, well. Things seem to be stable at the moment – Dreamhost put me on a new server and so far response times seem acceptable, I haven’t noticed the flakiness I was seeing on my old server. Of course if you do see anything unusual please let me know.
So, still feeling a little [...]

DreamHost is really irritating sometimes. Once in a very great while, I’ll go through a flurry of activity where I am actually working on my site, uploading files and editing entries and generally depending on it to be working reliably. And for some unknown reason, it seems like every time I hit one [...]

So. How would you feel, if you came home to spot this in your In Box?

Click to open fullsize image. And yes, my given name is Eric, but don’t tell anybody.
Good thing I checked my Junk folder – I almost missed this.
So um. Talk about confirmation links you probably [...]

A hokey and unintentionally hilarious happy new year to your and yours, from your friends at amphichon.

Let’s revisit some of our other top stories over the last few months. (Last few months where there were stories to revisit, I mean.)

Steve Irwin, sadly, is still dead. The stingray is still at large.
Reconstruction of the dome of that cathedral in St. Petersburg that burned so dramatically last August is scheduled for [...]

Especially when someone else lives there.
(Edit: it’s gone now.)

And just a day after the Bridge Pedal, some fuckwit stole my bike – my primary means of transportation, my primary means of exercise, and one of the few genuine pleasures I have in this fucked-up life.
I can’t even begin to find the words to express how angry and frustrated I am [...]

Are you, by any chance, visiting from Craigslist? If so, welcome, have a seat anywhere, make yourself at home. Pardon the dust, I’ve been geeky lately. Feel free to poke around. Let me know what you think.

Well, it’s a little irritating, but my new format has been extensively tested and works perfectly in Firefox for Windows, Firefox for Mac, Safari and Camino. It’s fully standards-compliant and contains no errors.
But IE can’t figure out how to show it correctly.
I am inclined to think that the problem is with IE. [...]