Some notes from an ongoing novel: Had I only listened to Mom. "Don't take chances. Go with the crowd. Stick your head up and it will get chopped off." Live and learn. Or, in my case, "Die and forget," perhaps. It started with the font wars. You recall when fonts broke free of simple 2D shapes of a single color. Oh, yes, of course there were early foreshadowings, like the color fonts on the old Amiga system, and, yes, I know, people crafted commercial color fonts for a little whil...

Some notes from an ongoing novel:Had I only listened to Mom. "Don't take chances. Go with the crowd. Stick your head up and it will get chopped off." Live and learn. Or, in my case, "Die and forget," perhaps. It started with the font wars. You recall when fonts broke free of simple 2D shapes of a single color. Oh, yes, of course there were early foreshadowings, like the color fonts on the old Amiga system, and, yes, I know, people crafted commercial color fonts for a little while, s...