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UPDATE 2023/12/31: This is the first post for my blog after I converted my personal website hecker.org to use Blosxom. I’m including it here for historical interest. After a long period of neglecting my personal web site, I’ve decided to start my own weblog, with the goal of making it easier for me to publish new material and therefore (I hope) more likely that I’ll actually write more. My plan is to write about things that interest me, on the theory that they might interest at least a few other people. As part of that I’ll occasionally discuss the volunteer work I’ve been doing for the Mozilla project. ...

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. As many people can attest, sometimes you spend more time (and have more fun) tinkering with the underpinnings of a web site instead of actually writing new content to be posted on it. In that spirit, here is my current list of things I’m planning to add to or change about my web site and blog. ...

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. I’ve done a lot of work related to software licensing as part of the Mozilla relicensing project and when I worked at CollabNet. As a result of enduring endess wrangling about licensing terms I’ve been put off complex licensing schemes, and prefer to make my own works available under very liberal terms. ...

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. If you’d like to receive full-text articles from this site as they are published, you can subcribe to one or more of the following feeds, in the formats indicated; simply cut and paste the URLs into your feed reader of choice. The Atom feeds are preferred; I maintain the RSS feeds only for older news aggregators that are not yet Atom-enabled. ...

UPDATE 2023-03-27: This page is obsolete, as it refers to a prior version of this blog. However, it may be of historical interest. The basic principles I tried to follow in creating the this site were as follows: The site should be entirely text-based, with minimal or no use of graphics. All web pages on the site should validate as HTML 4.01 Strict. All web pages on the site should be accessible using URIs that hide the details of the particular content type or page generation mechanism associated with the page. The site should be a transparent upgrade from my previous site (created a few years ago), so that all previous URLs should continue to work. The following sections expand on these points: ...