2005-01-30 06:21 notadict Wikis Are Not Dictionaries Wherein those wikis that become dictionary-like in purpose are challenged, with rationale. This is something that I've been meaning to write up for a while now properly, and so I've laid out a summary of the problem here. 2005-02-03 03:13 cygwin Cygwin Notes Random notes about cygwin are starting to be collected here, including tips about what to do when it all goes horribly wrong (i.e. runs out of PIDs), and how to configure it in general. 2005-02-03 03:14 issuetracking Issue Tracking Tools Guest wikiblogger Christopher Schmidt muses about issue tracking. I'd like to develop this into a more generic overview of issue tracking approaches and solutions. 2005-02-03 03:15 projname The Project Name Problem The woes of naming a project discussed. This is somewhat random and thread-mode oriented at the moment, but it does come with an overview of the statement and uses eph itself as the main case example. 2005-02-14 17:41 tapestries Tapestries Wherein tapestries of miscellany are examined; the rationale behind which, some hints and tips for, and other general discussion around which is also exposited, for the delight of all our readers. 2005-02-14 17:43 voynich VMS Notes Notes on the Voynich Manuscript. These should be moved to /voynich/ on inamidst, but for the time being they're here since it was a convenient place to scribe to whilst Terje and I discussed the matter somewhat on IRC. 2005-02-14 21:13 heroes Heroes and Heroines William Loughborough recently published his pantheon, a list of his heroes and seminal influences, and this is a discussion of his choices and of the wider ideas and manner of choosing heroes and heroines. 2005-02-17 22:27 noets Noets - An IRC Weblog System Chris has been asking me to write about the noets system for a while, and after much prompting from him and Monty I've done so. Discusses the original prototype site, and the subsequent developments. 2005-02-24 12:58 snoobird The Magical Snoobird - snoobird Wherein the snoobird, the famously mirthful bird of the snow, is described. 2005-03-01 01:36 dodo The Dodo and The Reunion Solitaire - dodo Recent developments have shown that the dodo is most closely related to the nicobar pigeon, but can those same developments help us to bring the dodo back into being?