http://gohlkusmaximus.com a man, a plan, a website: gohlkusmaximus. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 17:44:54 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Did you know? The "John 3:16" guy is in jail. http://gohlkusmaximus.com/index.php/2008/08/27/where-are-they-now/ Lest I forget, Chuck Lewis, the SEO Rapper (yes, that's right, he is the "Search Engine Optimization Rapper"), presented his rap stylings at WordCamp 2008. I don't even know what to say except that I really enjoyed his performance and that he is truly one of a kind. He was a ... http://gohlkusmaximus.com/index.php/2008/08/18/chuck-the-seo-rapper/ I'm trying to redesign my portfolio and keep this website up to date. But the code has been revised and iterated continuously since 2001. This site at least is in XHTML and uses CSS for layout. So that's good. But I'm using Tantek Çelik's Box Model Hack, and frankly, it ... http://gohlkusmaximus.com/index.php/2008/08/18/box-model-hack-2008/ WordCamp 2008 happened on Saturday in San Francisco, and it was good. Highlights were many and often. In no particular order: Liz Danzico and Jane Wells talked about the great usability work they're doing for WordPress, and showed off some of the modifications they may or may not make to the current ... http://gohlkusmaximus.com/index.php/2008/08/18/wordcamp-2008/ I decided to post this here as an oblique response to my own earlier post. And why waste my writing solely on someone else's website? (Why not waste it here, too?) I don't know how much it would help to try any particular techniques, or specific kinds of things to say, ... http://gohlkusmaximus.com/index.php/2008/08/15/funnier-in-person/ Apparently I've never posted a link to this essay by George Orwell. Now I'm rectifying that situation. Read it now. From George Orwell, "Politics and the English Language," 1946: In our time it is broadly true that political writing is bad writing. Where it is not true, it will generally be found ... http://gohlkusmaximus.com/index.php/2008/08/07/george-orwell-on-politics-and-the-english-language/ Here's something important you may have missed: Yes, the U.S. Army scientist under suspicion for perpetrating the anthrax attacks of 2001 died recently, right before he was to have been indicted. But it's come to light that, immediately after the attacks, numerous sources told ABC News and others that the anthrax ... http://gohlkusmaximus.com/index.php/2008/08/04/greenwald-on-the-anthrax-story/