Aleae Iaciens

Since I'm already maintaining one weblog at my website, it seems a little silly to keep paying for TypePad's service. Thus, I'm moving Aleae Iaciens over here. The new address is already active, as you can see, and has all of AI's previous posts (and comments to those posts); the old site will remain active until the end of the month.

The new Aleae Iaciens has an Atom feed; please feel free to use it. At the end of the month, when I cancel the TypePad site, I'll look into migrating the existing Livejournal feed if nobody's done so.

Posted by Chris Anthony at 09:20 AM | Permalink

As long-time readers know, I've been struggling with the idea of Icons for a while now, and today I think I've finally figured out how they're going to work.  This is a synthesis of some ideas that I've had before, fade's original concept, and my recent study of ancient Greek philosophy.  Comments are, as always, welcome.

Continue reading "How Icons Work" »

Posted by Chris Anthony at 08:33 PM | Permalink | Comments (1)

I don't really have any time at the moment to give a full update; the end of the semester will do that to you.  But I can give you a sneak peek of what's coming down the pike...

Continue reading "Upcoming posts" »

Posted by Chris Anthony at 12:26 AM | Permalink

I've decided to post this even though it's not finished, both to get something up and to see if I can get feedback.  Also, the concepts that went into this gave me a way to work Icons in that I like a lot, so this is laying the groundwork for that as well.  Enjoy!

Continue reading "The Religion of Frontier" »

Posted by Chris Anthony at 12:23 AM | Permalink | Comments (3)

One of the things I really, really love about TypePad is that pretty much every page on the administrative side takes variables through POST and GET.  The logical consequence of this, naturally, is that if you forget that in this particular (otherwise generally fully-featured) text editor, CMD-Left Arrow means Navigate Back instead of Home, you realize only just a moment too late that what you've done is erase the 500-word post you just wrote, because TypePad will generate the page from scratch when you hit CMD-Right Arrow to navigate forward again.

The upshot is that this post might be a little more scattered than usual, since I'm going to be prone to thinking that I've already written something in the post's first incarnation.  (I've switched over to Writely in order to write the rest of this, since I like its behavior better. It seemed silly to do so the first time, because I didn't think I was going to be writing so much.)

Continue reading "Updates" »

Posted by Chris Anthony at 02:24 PM | Permalink | Comments (2)