frequently asked questions
Actually, most of these questions haven’t been asked, but here they are anyway.
- What is pleonasm.com?
- It’s a weblog, with no particular theme. It serves as a creative outlet for me, primarily. I’m not here to amass a huge readership, nor am I a link whore; in fact, I never even look at my server statistics. I blog for me. Writing in public now and then keeps me feeling creative, and that feels good. In addition, this site is a place for me to experiment with things like CSS, PHP, JavaScript, and so on.
- What’s your name?
- My first name is Matt; you’ll just have to figure out my last name. I do like a little privacy.
- Are you American? French? What?
- English, actually. I lived in the US from 1993 to 2000, then lived in Paris, France for a little over a year, then moved back to the US (San Diego, California) at the beginning of 2002. I’m currently in Vancouver, Canada for a few months before returning to San Diego for a while, and thence to... well, I’ll keep you posted.
- What tools do you use to create and edit your site?
- See the colophon for information about this.
- Do you use Blogger, Movable Type, TypePad, WordPress, or another blogging system?
- No. I have thought about it several times; an automated, web-based publishing system would certainly make it easier for me to post from anywhere, which would probably result in my posting more often. However, I just can’t abandon my text editor and FTP client. I just prefer it that way. I’m not a Luddite; I just feel more comfortable editing by hand, and I like having total control over my code. Also, even though handcoding is definitely a lot more work, it keeps me on top of things by forcing me to understand the underlying code, rather than having a machine write it for me. I like to get under the hood and get my hands dirty; it’s just the way I am.
- What does the little icon
at the end of each post mean? - It’s a “permalink” - a link to the permanent URL for that item. If you click on it and then bookmark the new page, you’ll always be able to go straight to that item.
- Why is your site just plain text in one long column?
- It only looks like that if your browser does not support CSS (a current web standard), or if you have disabled style sheets or overridden mine with your own. Otherwise, in a CSS-enabled graphical browser, this site will be displayed in a grid layout, with various font sizes and colours, and background colours and images.
- What does “pleonasm” mean?
- Take a look at a definition.
- Is it true what they say about Englishmen?
- Yes, but only in warm weather.
- I think I love you! Can we go out on a date?
- Like, as if!