Misc

Recently I was prompted to try taking photos of the TV which currently serves as a monitor for my XT, because reasons (which may be made clearer in the future if I'm not lazy and/or distracted by other things).  After much trial and error, I think my current results provide an accurate representation of what's actually visible on the screen. Getting there wasn't exactly a walk in the park, so perhaps this post could prove useful for someone. ...

Finished migrating this blog from Blogspot/Blogger to my own domain.  Instead of a bloated, plodding, XHTML/JS-driven piece of crap hosted on a restrictive external service -- this is now a self-hosted, static site delivered straight to you without the need of a database or any client/server-side scripting (thanks go to Hugo for making it easy).  This means I get to control my own content, and you get a much leaner and meaner site. ...

Going to put up some actual new posts soon, but I've been messing with the blog design a little and customizing the stylesheet. Why do I feel the need to share this thoroughly uninteresting piece of news, you ask? Because if anything looks b0rked now, I want to know about it. Oh, yeah: that new font you're (hopefully) seeing is Fantasque Sans Mono, and the one I've been using for titles is Nouveau IBM Stretch, which does a good job of rendering those classic VGA 9x16 text mode characters in the right aspect ratio. ...

Yep, I'm POSTing.  *rimshot*  I've been persuaded to open one of these blog things, and those of you who know me might be surprised that I've chosen this particular service by this particular provider.  But it seems to be the only one that's both free and (almost) completely customizable, and rolling my own wouldn't be very cost-effective, so there.