The Blork Blog

I’m glad the elections in Iraq went well — even though more than 30 people died as a result of anti-democracy attacks. Hopefully the high voter turnout is a sign that things will soon improve for the beleaguered nation.
But am I the only one who sees the requirement to provide a fingerprint as proof […]

While we’re on the topic of bad Web typography, let me take a moment to complain about bad link styles.
It is possible, using CSS, to design a wide variety of typographical effects when it comes to Web links and what happens when the cursor rolls over them (referred to as a "rollover effect"). You can […]

Recently, I’ve noticed a lot of articles on the Web using an unusual format when putting things in quotation marks. The quotation opens with a pair of a grave accents (like this: “) and closes with a pair of apostrophes (like this: ”). Below is an example from Bloomberg.com, with the quotation marks put in […]

Oh my, wasn’t that a fluffy snowfall we had yesterday? No, really, I don’t remember the last time I saw such a powdery day. Big fluffy snowflakes like feathers, slowly swirling and falling. Beautiful.

I caught a few minutes of Iron Chef America last week. While the original Japanese Iron Chef is hilarious because of its unintentional over-the-top campiness, the American version was just odd. It felt like a weird transliteration that just wasn’t working right.
The set, lighting, and camera work is almost identical, and the format is […]

My finger is healing nicely, two-and-a-half days after the big chop. To be honest, it was a very small piece that was chopped off — as I said below, maybe half the size of an orange pip. But did it ever bleed!
As I said, it’s much better now. Wanna see?

What is it with cats and blogs? Why do so many people put pictures of their cats on their blogs, even more so than pictures of their kids?
Oh, who am I kidding? I’m as guilty as anybody (just Google “blork spiff” for proof). Maybe we just like our cats.
Thus, in spite of Laurent’s anti-cat stance, […]