Irrsinn.net: taking joy in human unreason

When ignorance is allowed to win

Or: When to Say No and Bow Out Ungracefully A couple of months ago, I stumbled across a local woman who was trying to get her non-profit of 3 years off the ground. She was looking for grant writers, web-ish folks, etc., and her cause was awesome. I was ...

“Stealth” posted

"Stealth"--Chapter 11 of Witches--is up! "Actually," Darnell said as Hardi's hand moved toward the comm, "I don't think we're going to solve anything over a comm. I want to meet in person." Hardi hesitated, then said slowly, "I'll... talk it over with the folks here." "Hardi!" hissed Robert through the doorway. ...

Weekly linkage

Just a few: Passive voice is killing your design documents - " I would argue that if the goal is to communicate clearly, actually stating and explaining the uncertainties is going to be much more helpful to readers." The Size Of Our World - Bad graphical quality, but cool comparison. 6174 (number) - ...

Search-building: custom or Google

Until earlier this week, I had a lousy site search in place. It was one of Google's Custom Search Engines, barely configured and only on its own page, due to it's hefty (and blocking!) JavaScript. I'd long since disabled Wordpress's search since my stories aren't being run in ...