Simply Jonathan

This is Simply Jonathan, online writing habitat for Jonathan Holst. In here, you may find content divided into three main categories: links, notes and essays. The links are to external content of interest; the notes are small thoughts and ponderings; the essays are longer, more thought-through entries, often debating a subject thoroughly. Read more about Jonathan and this site.

Font Conference

23 July 2008, 10:42 AM CEST +0200

I don’t get why Comic Sans is the superhero — when has that ever saved anything?

Sean Tevis for State Representative

18 July 2008, 7:30 AM CEST +0200

Really a wonderful idea, and he sounds like a quite clever chap. And $8.34 isn’t exactly much money.

Kurt Vonnegut on Writing Style

17 July 2008, 10:41 AM CEST +0200

No matter what your first language, you should treasure it all your life. If it happens to not be standard English, and if it shows itself when your write standard English, the result is usually delightful, like a very pretty girl with one eye that is green and one that is blue.

I beg to differ, seeing that I personally try to write as British as possible, but it’s sound advice. Embrace your differences.

Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds - Up Jumped the Devil

11 July 2008, 4:01 PM CEST +0200

Who’s that hanging from the gallow tree?
His eyes are hollow but he looks like me.

Omnificent English Dictionary in Limerick Form

11 July 2008, 10:55 AM CEST +0200

Wonderful. As Jonathan Hoefler over at H&FJ says, Precisely the kind of project that the internet was made for.

Another Take on LAMP

10 July 2008, 8:10 PM CEST +0200

Tim Bray:

Acronym Key
WIMP Windows, IIS
DAMN DirectX, ActiveX, .NET
[…]
SIN SQL Server, IIS, .NET

As spoken by a very wise man.

Memento Mori

10 July 2008, 7:34 PM CEST +0200

A novella on which my favourite film of all times, Memento, is based. Not quite as good as the film but very decent for a short story.

In Layman’s Terms

10 July 2008, 4:25 PM CEST +0200

The Daily WTF:

For those unfamiliar with Value Chain Integration, in layman’s terms it synergizes backward overflow while optimizing cardinal grammeters in addition to allowing customers to parabolize slithy toves at the least embiggoned cost possible.

You know, in layman’s terms.

Title Case in PHP

10 July 2008, 4:13 PM CEST +0200

I spent some time today writing a port of Gruber’s Title Case to PHP, but as it turns out, there is already one, which functions a little better, so I won’t publish it.

I’ll continue to use mine though, because, well, I rock.

(The way I discovered this, by the way, was rather bizarre. I had obviously named the plugin Title Case, and then, to my surprise, it turned out there was an update. Apparently, it queries the central plugin repository to check about updates. Very clever, but took me by surprise that I had already released an update.)

Muse - Thoughts of a Dying Atheist

10 July 2008, 12:11 PM CEST +0200

Are you afraid to die?