No more Font Bitch

I was very excited yesterday, because I finally, after twelve years, found out the answer to the riddle: "Why is a raven like a writing desk?", which is from Alice In Wonderland. The answer isn't revealed and actually I think Lewis Carroll probably had no answer in mind when he wrote it. However, a completely feasible answer is that Edgar Allan Poe wrote on both.

Yes, I know. *groan* And here's a copy of The Raven if you haven't read it.

I've been doing a little bit more behind-the-scenes stuff for bbt, as a result of which I am a Font-bitch no longer! Watch all the little letters change size as you View -> Text Size in IE!

Getting a bit too excited there, wasn't I? I'm just going through Dive Into Accessibility, which anyone who goes near HTML markup of any kind should be forced to read. The next thing I want to do is to add a site search, and then I think I'm done, except for getting in the habit of using title attributes in links (which I've previously refrained from doing since in Opera 6, hovering over the link displays the title in the status bar and masks the URL, which really annoys me).

According to voters of Radio 4's World Book Day Vote, the book that most "epitomises" England is George Orwell's 1984. Unfortunate choice of wording there, I feel.

Testing willpower - someone created a site called Don't Go There that was designed to shut down after 100 people had clicked on the link (after being warned what would happen). It was apparently an exercise in willpower, as the author wanted to see how long it would last while people abstained from clicking in an attempt to keep the site up. It lasted 57 minutes, a little bit less than his estimate of 24 hours.

And Google has done the first announced thing for Blogger - closing some security holes.

The hole Lamo demonstrated did not require him to take over an existing weblog. Instead, he bypassed the process BlogSpot used to prevent new customers from establishing weblogs with an address already in use.

After confirming that an address was available, the enrollment application stored it in the user's browser in a hidden form field. A hacker could simply change the name in the form field to the name of an existing weblog to create a new journal that would supercede the legitimate one. "I would characterize it as an outstandingly common problem," says Lamo.

I'm still thinking about moving to Movable Type, since you ask...