Testing the MarsEdit software...... 02/18/2005 [+]

But this time with TypeKey registration turned on!... 02/14/2005 [+]

Posted with MarsEdit, which appears to be better than Ecto.... 12/11/2004 [+]

Bear with us, folks. The site is almost completely immobilized these days, but only because we're trying to fix it. ("We had to destroy the village to save it.") First pass at it was to upgrade to Movable Type 3.12.... 11/24/2004 [+]

Comments spam

As the blog slowly sinks beneath the waves of unwanted promotions for propecia, online poker and the like... I tried a plug-in called scode: couldn't figure out how to install it properly. Installed MTBlacklist: finds the spam comments, but... 11/15/2004 [+]

All hope is lost

As I'm sure many of you would agree, this website sucks. Well, the jury's still out on the content, perhaps, but the mechanics of posting to this page are achingly slow, at best. These days, it seems to have given... 11/10/2004 [+]

Return of the miniblog

As I slowly ramp up to blog-respectability again, I have resumed posting links in the miniblog. That's the one ingeniously tucked under each day's date-header (click on the big October 13, above). These are stories worth noting, but not quite... 10/13/2004 [+]

I've had a reader complain about a pop-up ad that appears whenever he enters this site. I know nothing about this; it certainly isn't any of my doing. Is anyone else seeing the same thing? If so, what can I... 07/23/2004 [+]

Two kewl new features: 1) You can now bookmark posts for future reference. Just click where it says "[+] Bookmark this" below each post. Your saved bookmarks are listed under "Bookmarked Posts" in the Blog sidebar at left, though if... 06/20/2004 [+]

Attention, shoppers

You can now add your comments (if you feel so inclined) to the links in the Miniblog (click on the date headings to show). ALSO: As mentioned in a previous post, I've set up a Donnybrook for those looking to... 06/14/2004 [+]

Return of the Donnybrook

I have revived the Donnybrook section (see the sidebar at left), which older readers will remember from andrewcoyne.com version 1.0: freestanding comments pages, not attached to any particular post, for long-running arguments and special occasions. I've set up a couple... 06/13/2004 [+]

How do people feel about

How do people feel about this sidebar-scrolling question? On my browser (Safari, available only in Mac flavour) I can just use the page-down key. But I realize some -- all right, most -- of you are saddled with Windows/Internet Explorer.... 06/05/2004 [+]

Miniblog

Now that that bit of scrolling trouble is out of the way, it's time to unveil the latest and greatest addition to the site: Ladies and gentlemen, introducing -- kerrannnggg!!-- the Miniblog! Well don't all applaud at once. Where is... 06/02/2004 [+]

New feature alert!

It is now possible, owing to the miracles of Movable Type and my own hackwork, to link to individual comments under each post, not just the post itself. (See, for example, "Latest Comments" at left.) This allows for a primitive... 05/31/2004 [+]

.... and we're back

Possibly a couple of you have been wondering where I've been. The rest are too alienated by my long silence to care. No, I haven't been kidnapped by aliens, nor did the Aspers have me gagged. The banal answer is... 05/24/2004 [+]

Googlenesia

Something has gone seriously wrong with the Google search function. It seems to have forgotten everything it learned in crawling this site. Or rather, the blog seems to be crowding out the columns catalogue: click on Supreme Court on the... 04/15/2004 [+]

Today's ultracool website: For those

Today's ultracool website: For those of you who still prefer vinyl.... 04/14/2004 [+]

This blog madness has got to stop

First the faceless drones on the National Post editorial board get a blog. Now Tory eminence grise Norman "Looming" Spector has gone electric.And to think I remember when this whole blog thing was just me and Colby Cosh goofing around... 04/14/2004 [+]

Technology imitates broadsheet

I know this has been all over the 'net, but it's too cool to let pass without note: newsmap takes the Google news page and arranges it in a way that clues you into the significance of each item. The... 04/12/2004 [+]

Sheesh. Can't a guy take

Sheesh. Can't a guy take a couple of days off without people breaking into hives? "Days off," as in working on other things. But amongst them...Rethinking the design of the site, in a fairly fundamental way. I have two, seemingly... 04/11/2004 [+]

Four out of five ADD sufferers read USAToday

USAToday reports that people who spent a lot of time watching TV as a child have shorter attention... 04/06/2004 [+]

If you can't get on

If you can't get on the site, neither can I. It's a problem with the Blogrolling site -- again -- on which I am heavily dependent. (It started with painkillers I was taking for my back...) Of course, if you... 04/01/2004 [+]

The National Blog

Just reading up on some of this lately, was interesting.... 03/31/2004 [+]

SERVICE UPDATE: I've copied the

SERVICE UPDATE: I've copied the blogrolls (lower right on this page, in the index column) over to the links browser, for easier blogskimming. Canadian blogs are listed here, while US and international blogs are here.... 03/30/2004 [+]

Club andrewcoyne-a-go-go

Several improvements to the site over the weekend. 1) I've added a collection of cool pop music links (for browsing in the links browser, as always). These are a complement to the hugely pointless What's playing on my hard drive... 03/28/2004 [+]

I've added a link that

I've added a link that lets you see the what's playing at this very moment on my computer (plus the last 10 songs played). Totally useless information, but it was too cool to resist. The link is in the left-hand... 03/26/2004 [+]

NealeNews, RIP

There is no joy in Blogville, as Brian Neale's mighty news site bows out, the victim, he says, of a nasty combination of rising workload and declining readership. Sad: Neale's site, with its amazing lists of links (still up --... 03/25/2004 [+]

Things you'll learn on this

Things you'll learn on this website... that the flower Ralph Goodale was wearing for the budget speech is a protected species which it is illegal to pick... that Petro-Canada alone accounts for 5% of the national debt... that "kardinal offishall,... 03/23/2004 [+]

How much better can it get?

People, I am just one man. I can't be responsible for collecting every great site on the Web and presenting them to you in an easy-to-use, index-and-pane format. So I've added yet another great new feature: The Link Exchange. Just... 03/22/2004 [+]

Googlewha?

I'm constantly amused at what Google Ads thinks this page is about. The service is supposed to tailor the ads to the content of the site, but as with anything computerized, it's a little ... literal-minded. I mention Scott Brison,... 03/20/2004 [+]

For all your anonymous-conversations-with-strangers needs

Two new Donnybrooks: on the Conservative convention and the federal budget. On King! On you huskies!PS CBC has all three speeches (in Realaudio) here. Naturally, CTV has the video.... 03/19/2004 [+]

Today's mystifying browser incompatibility

The news feed (from feedroll.com) in the left-hand column and on the News Scan page has overflown its boundaries -- but only today, only the Yahoo! Top Stories category, and only on Internet Explorer 6 (natch) for Windows (double-natch). On... 03/16/2004 [+]

Style points

I think the page was looking a little too black, at least in serif font. I've lightened up the text a bit, and loosened the line-spacing. Hope it's easier on the eyes. (Come to think of it, I could do... 03/11/2004 [+]

Bank error in my favour

By a strange quirk, my sober, weighty analysis of Sheila Copps's humiliation (Sheila loses!) made the Popdex Top 50 most popular links for today. That's on the whole Internet. It can't possibly be true, but it's strangely gratifying nevertheless.UPDATE: Gone.... 03/08/2004 [+]

Sorry for the radio silence.

Sorry for the radio silence. I've been travelling/speechifying/columnizing. Normal blogging will resume shortly.... 03/05/2004 [+]

Attention Commenters

Should have asked this before, but Haloscan gives me the option of running the comments in chronological order (ie oldest comments at the top, newest at the bottom) or reverse-chronological order (newest at the -- well, you get the idea).... 03/03/2004 [+]

Donnybrook v. 2.0

Well, of course. Silly me. You can't bring people to the party. You have to bring the party to the people. Any student of human behaviour could tell you that. If you want people to congregate in a public square,... 03/03/2004 [+]

New feature time (well, it's been a couple of days)

I've noticed something about the Comments pages. We get a lively discussion going, lots of back and forth, and then... I add a post, the item to which they're attached moves down the page, as if to suggest the topic... 03/03/2004 [+]

Positively the last fawning note about my own site ever

It's been a quiet weekend around here retooling the site. You may have some questions about what you see. Yes, you at the back:What's that yellow Post-it note thingy to the right?So glad you asked. That, ladies and gentlemen, is... 02/29/2004 [+]

Page incapable of improvement: voters

The results are in, and I guess you could say the people have spoken: By resounding majorities, respondents to my U-Design-It survey have voted in favour of ... the status quo. The Don't Change a Thing party (slogan: The Blog... 02/28/2004 [+]

Linkers alert!

I have moved my archives into a subdirectory called Archives (as in http://andrewcoyne.com/Archives). I'm afraid this means breaking links to specific posts – they can be repaired by inserting "/Archives" (no quotes) between the domain name (http://andrewcoyne.com) and the permalink... 02/25/2004 [+]

Pick of the Comments pages

Selections from the past week (!)...Scott Ingram:Dammit, if we're going to emulate Central American countries, I wish we'd get the climate to go with it.Tim: Can we please just replace the Canadian national anthem with the theme from "The Smurfs"?... 02/25/2004 [+]

Tech help?

It's like watching baby take his first steps, isn't it? I want to set up a pop-up menu to handle the various format options at left (saves space over listing them on the page). I can generate the menu easily... 02/24/2004 [+]

More great new features

By a bit of skullduggery I have been able to kick the Google search engine into gear. The entire million-word archive of Coyne columns going back to 1985 is now at your disposal.The search box is at the bottom-left of... 02/24/2004 [+]

Memories....

CHECK OUT the unspeakably cool new archive, for fast, nostalgic scrolling through previous weeks' posts. Just click on the button in the column at right, below the index.And yes, it's available in Bizarro. WARNING: There are frames involved. If your... 02/23/2004 [+]

Tech questions

1. Does anybody else find Trackback as lame as I do? I added it to the site before I knew quite how it worked – or doesn't. For the uninitiated, it's advertised as linking a specific post to posts on... 02/21/2004 [+]

You have the power! (what, again?)

I have added a feature that lets you pick your own style: Serif (ie Georgia font), Sans-serif (Verdana), and, in answer to several requests, Large Type. Just click on the link of your choice at top-left. This is thanks to... 02/19/2004 [+]

Feedback, please

I'm considering switching to a serif font. This one's called Georgia. Do you like it? Or do you prefer a sans-serif font like Verdana, as it was before? I think Georgia is more legible, but will it mean I have... 02/18/2004 [+]

You have the power!

All right people, we're entering the second week of the scandal with no name, and it's time to choose. I've received literally, oh, fives of entries in the Name That Scandal contest, and frankly most of them were awful. Still,... 02/15/2004 [+]

Holy smoke

Only up a day at the new address, and already a record number of hits. For me, that is: just an Insignificant Microbe (UPDATE: Slithering Reptile) in the grand scheme of things. Thanks to the larger mammals -- Paul, Colby,... 02/13/2004 [+]

.... and we're back

Sorry about that, folks. Apparently, Rogers' policy is that you can have a free web page with your monthly internet access fee, so long as nobody actually looks at it. The minute you get the smallest trickle of traffic --... 02/13/2004 [+]

New, improved blog...

Same great taste, way sharper format.... 01/30/2004 [+]