Taking a comeback seriously, but the absence lightly.

When blogger᾿s block hits.

First steps to a new publishing platform.

Eking out a bit more performance from this creaky old publishing system.

Writing well for one medium might mean writing poorly in another.

It’s really difficult to keep it short.

Design blogs are bringing us more design writing than ever, even as they pose a real danger to design writing.

My official and mostly unsurprising endorsements for The Webby Awards.

The war on comment spam continues.

Things about me that seem very important right now.

As I recover from a 24-hour bug, get ready for random.

Movable Type maintenance in progress here.

Possibly the first of a long line of dumping grounds for links I can’t turn into full posts.

Problems publishing this blog that shouldn’t require anyone smarter than me to fix.

Lamenting the state of affairs for Six Apart’s pioneering blog publishing software.

On blogging, changes to the comments policy, and calling special attention to me.

What do you listen to when you write in the blogosphere?

The most glaring of the un-index-able content types can now be indexed.

An unexpected honor from the Annual Weblog Awards.

A long-winded excuse for an extremely busy period of not doing anything on this Web site.

With a sense of futility, I present my musical baton.

Coming to terms with remarkable similarities which may or may not be intentional.

When I wasn’t looking, someone stole my Web site.

I’m, like, totally guest-posting over at Signal vs. Noise this month.

Just because I have the power to create a new weblog, does it mean I should?

RSS feeds take a lot of energy, but where do people find the time?

We need a way to aggregate everything you ever wrote anywhere on the Web in a single place.

On the third day, the second report from SXSW.

Don’t sit there trying to come up with something to blog about unless you have something to blog about.

What is a blog, weblogs as fiction, and other vague, ill-formed ideas about the medium.

If I let you know where I am, what’s that mean for this weblog?

XML feeds for Subtraction.com have been revamped. Go wild!

Looking back at an early, abortive attempt at keeping an online journal.

Welcome to Subtraction Version 7.0.

Report on my trial period with NetNewsWire 2.0 beta.

How does anybody find the time to keep up with a weblog?

In the process of redesigning Subtraction.com, and dumping BBEdit or skEdit.

Thanks and a very important correction on who’s responsible for that Boxes and Arrows entry.

For Internet Explorer users, special accommodations are always necessary.

Subtle tweaks may indicate an impending redesign.

Two minor flirtations with fame today, one for me and one for my four-legged companion.

PulpFiction is finally here, and this is what I think of it.

How my Web surfing habits have changed.

The search for the perfect XML news reader.

The intensely personal part of Web design.

This posted started out as a review of a backpack, and then all hell broke loose!

500 posts is a milestone of some kind, right?

The limitations of Movable Type’s categories feature.

Witnessing the difficulty of installing Movable Type.

The latest iteration of this site, version Six.5, goes public today.

As I prepare to officially release Six.5, a few words on what I’m looking to get out of it.

For the sake of posterity, a few technical notes on how I built Subtraction.com version Six.5.

SixApart Ltd., makers of Movable Type, are really on the move, and it signals the next phase of Internet innovation.

How redesigning my site has influenced how I write, and how I write has influenced redesigning my site.

Movable Type is among the best software packages I’ve ever used. It has its shortcomings, but you have to dig deep to find them.

Most of the major work on Six.5 is done, including transforming the site from fluid to fixed-width layouts.

The version Six.5 redesign is underway, and here is an explanation of the rationale behind it.

The rules that govern this blog and the posts that I make to it.

It’s the end of March, and all 200-plus of my old posts are now available.

Just got Movable Type installed. Whee!

I’m seriously considering switching over to Movable Type.

A map of New York City bloggers.

So I had an idea for keeping an online journal, see…