I'm gonna sink my teeth into Kansas.

• 15 years ago, and today.

• .NET devs: this sort of thing is why us freetards keep harping on about software freedom as if it's important or something.

• CSS tweak to make Wikipedia editable on an iPad.

• Lore Sjoberg conclusively explains life-hacking.

• What do they speak in Australia?

• RationalWiki: Natural horsemanship (courtesy quiet000001 and mouseworks), Boskop Man, PESWiki, The Final Theory.

Has anyone here used CFL GU10 spotlights? Our house is full of 50 watt halogen GU10s using stupendous quantities of electricity. We think the landlord mistook the showroom for a worked example. £5/CFL is worth it, though I've yet to hear of any that don't suck. We tried an LED GU10 from Homebase and it was so dim we threw it away, but I'd love to hear of decent CFL or LED ones.

Casual meet with Wikimedia UK people last night. As is standard whenever two or three Wikimedians meet, we conspired to fix everything that's wrong with Wikipedia and Wikimedia! Perhaps 1% will ever be attempted. One project that desperately needs participants is Wikisource, particularly so that it can handle incoming documents from museums and archives — Commons is doing okay with the images.

Last week I took The Wolfgang Press from two paragraphs to a proper article. Yesterday it was on the front page Did you know? section for six hours and got 3065 hits, compared to its usual 25-50. Not bad for an article about an obscure band approximately no-one cares about. ("Kansas", from Bird Wood Cage, is a lost goth rock classic. DJs, please play. Thank you.) I'd forgotten how much quiet nerdy fun it is writing and researching a Wikipedia article. Writing about anything artistic on Wikipedia is arse, though, unless you can find critics to quote. Printed ones by preference. Wikipedia's epistemology is severely broken at the edges, and knowing how it got that way doesn't actually help.

Scary realisation re: Freda — realising just how much my own parents must have been frantically making it up as they went along.