Recent problems with how this site displays (Chinese characters in Safari, HTML tags in IE) prompt a public confession: I do this site entirely by hand-coding HTML in a .txt file, which, in today’s world of readily-available blogging software packages, is utterly ridiculous. The strange text rendering is probably caused by my bad habit of editing my site’s .txt files in both Window’s Notepad and Mac’s TextEdit, which screws up the encoding.
I’ve investigated other ways to deploy this site other than the HTML equivalent of churning my own butter, but software is either expensive or would require that I “do something” with three years of archives or would just rob me of the control that the HTML allows (I don’t want “comment” functionality… ) But the layout of my site isn’t too hot, and my current method is time-consuming and buggy, so a new solution must be found. For now, I apologize for any strange formatting or characters… it’s all because of my miserly, old-fashioned ways.
Since I just spent a lot of time fiddling with HTML code in an effort to fix things, I don’t have time to say much else say today. So here’s a picture of the most life-like robot I saw at NextFest yesterday. I wanted to feed him soup. He moved slowly, but his facial expressions were realistic. I heard one teenager ask, “Is he gay?”
