Home safe
Had a good trip. WisCon; Chicago; Swarthmore. Good to see people. Am unlikely to write up a full report of...
Buy books, get a free Hugo vote!
It's Hugo Award voting season again, and WorldCon (with the permission of the nominees and their publishers) has again provided...
Gender options for video game protagonist
First, a bit of background for those who don't know it: There's a popular series of science fiction video games...
Travel day
When I bought my WisCon plane tickets, I knew that the connection in Denver was a tight one, and I...
To see our sites as Google sees ’em
In some contexts, it can be very useful to be able to view your site the way that the Googlebot...
Hugo ballot, plus more on Hugo-nominated fiction by women
This year's list of Hugo nominees was released in April (congratulations to all nominees!), but I didn't look at it...
Intermittentnet
My Internet access may be spotty for the next couple days. On Thursday morning, my house suddenly lost Internet access....
Impending WisCon!
Sumana just asked me how long I'd been going to WisCon, and I realized I wasn't sure. Checked my old...
Mini-review: Thor
Saw Thor last night. Overall, mostly enjoyed it. Not brilliant, and not even as much fun as the Iron Man...
HTML/CSS/JS analysis/debugging tools
The Google Chrome Developer Tools are a nifty set of tools built into the Chrome web browser that let you...
Speed up your website!
I recently learned about a nifty tool provided by Google called Page Speed Online. You enter the URL of your...
Nauseous female characters on TV
I started noticing recently that the only time female TV characters ever get nauseous (or nauseated, for those of you...