Category Archives: brezhnev.net

Baskerville

Posted on November 11, 2010 by Andrew

I am thrilled to learn that Bringhurst’s The Elements of Typographic Style has now been adapted to online world. I consider myself a Bringhurst disciple, if not a practicing one; this site does much that the great man would likely … Continue reading →

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Upgrades

Posted on November 6, 2010 by Andrew

Having been using the same version of WordPress for five years, I figured it was time for a change. I don’t expect that upgrading to the latest version will have much of an impact on my posting schedule (averaging, it … Continue reading →

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Now with comments!

Posted on December 31, 2005 by Andrew

As part of my grudging admission of defeat in the debate over whether this site is a blog (as it turns out, it is), I am opening up the floor and allowing visitors to post comments. This is an experiment … Continue reading →

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The UAE at No. 9

Posted on December 30, 2005 by Andrew

Since I first started monitoring traffic reports for this website, I have been fascinated and confused by the kinds of visitors it attracts. The Middle East and South Asia seem to be disproportionately represented, with India, the UAE, Iran, Pakistan, … Continue reading →

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BlogShares

Posted on December 26, 2005 by Andrew

I’ve come across a site called BlogShares, a sort of stock market game for blogs. I have registered brezhnev.net there in the hopes that I will be able to ride this site’s virtual IPO to unimaginable virtual riches. Of course, … Continue reading →

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new, and possibly improved

Posted on September 25, 2005 by Andrew

I have noticed, since turning this site into something resembling (but still not being) a blog, that people are much more demanding of things like updates. Unfortunately, while the site’s design was originally intended to make it easy to update, … Continue reading →

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habemus commutati

Posted on April 24, 2005 by Andrew

(atinlay otentiallypay estionablequay) It’s now late April, which makes this the largest gap in updating in some time. In order to make it seem somewhat worthwhile, I have made public a general re-design of the site I did a while … Continue reading →

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i brought nylons from new york

Posted on November 9, 2004 by Andrew

One of my neighbours enjoys shouting from her balcony. It always sounds like this or this. Sometimes it is louder, sometimes quieter. She has started as early as 5 am, and sometimes goes well into the night. At around 9:30pm … Continue reading →

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i have found a fantastic dictionary (non-esperanto)

Posted on October 30, 2004 by Andrew

Beijing was rather polluted today. Inspired by this, I have delved into differences between pollution ratings in two large Chinese cities (Hong Kong and Beijing). My delving was not very rigorous — no rigour involved, really — and should not … Continue reading →

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kio estas tio?

Posted on April 14, 2004 by Andrew

I am not updating this website because I am hard at work, as this picture illustrates: Also, some work has been done on non-public parts of this site that may yet become public.

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