New look

I've switched from hand-crafted html to using Blosxom for my blog. This lets me add some nice features like grouping postings by topic, an RSS feed, comments, search and so on.

After a couple of hundred postings about John Lott, I also feel like posting on something else for a change, so it's now Tim Lambert's weblog rather than a weblog examining Lott's research. For readers who are just interested in that topic, you need to visit cgi.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/cgi-bin/blog/guns/Lott and you'll only see the postings on Lott.

The old address (http://www.cse.unsw.edu.au/~lambert/guns/lott98update.html) still works, and will continue to work but it will only contain the postings about Lott.

I'm a computer scientist, not a graphic designer and it probably shows in the design of this page. Believe it or not I actually looked at a lot of designs before deciding that the one I liked best was this one, which happens to be the default design in Blosxom. I did add a couple of small flourishes like the pointy boxes in the sidebar.

Another deliberate design choice is that the text size is not set. I find an annoying number of websites specifying font sizes like 9 pixels---on a high resolution monitor that is really small type. This page should display text in the size you choose with your browser.

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