Just in case those of you who typically read this site in your RSS feed care, I’ve added a couple of sidebar widgets to the blog-proper. On the right, there’s now a sidebar of quick-hits links to articles or blog posts that looked interesting, but about which I either have nothing especially valuable to add […]

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Sorry, I’ve been playing with different ways to make commenting less onerous without having everything swamped by spam, and have apparently let a ton of stuff languish pending moderation. I’m approving those now, and will try to figure out some better way to handle this. Sooner or later, I’ll try to get a CAPTCHA installed […]

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OK, the deluge of comment spam was getting out of control, so I’ve resorted to turning on Typekey authentication. Apologies for the hassle, but it should only take minute to sign up, and many different blogs use it.

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So in the course of trying to redesign the site and update my article archives, I realized that my Web design skills were quite cutting edge for the time I learned HTML… around 1997. Which means I got to spend a bunch of the weekend teaching myself some CSS/DHTML/Java. So maybe someone geekier than I […]

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I’ve decided that there ought to be some kind of online clearing house devoted to the late Harvard philosopher Robert Nozick—best known to libertarians as the author of Anarchy, State and Utopia—and in the interests of moving from ought to is, I’ve decided to take on the task of building it. The easy (if somewhat […]

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As you may have noticed, the site is in the midst of getting a facelift. Comments are welcome—though if you absolutely hate the new look, well… sorry, I’ve logged enough hours on this design that there probably won’t be any more radical overhauls for another year or so. I’m hoping to finally get my article […]

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No, not quite dead yet. I’ve been migrating over to a new server and a new blogging software. Comments appreciated just to acknowledge you’re seeing this post so that I know the new location has propagated through the labrynthine channels of the Internet into all the proper root files, pointing my domain to the proper […]

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