there’s just something I like about serifs, so I thought it was about time I seriffed the fonts on my own site.

other than that, it’s still the same old boring gray theme.. tbh i’m waiting for WordPress 3 before my next major site facelift (not that the 2 are really related, but anyway…)

This is one of those routine web development things which you assume is inbuilt, but actually proves quite tedious to find a nice solution to.

Specifically, I am talking about converting something like ' to ‘ or & to & directly in Javscript.
This function does exactly that! Note how it adds a function to the prototype for String, so is called in the following way:

"Hello José".unescapeHtml()

Find the code here: paul schreiber » Blog Archive » JavaScript: how to unescape HTML entities.

1. Finish my final year project / dissertation (obviously)
2. Become a vi or emacs pro
3. Learn more about typography and font design
4. Get used to using SVN
5. Improve my handwriting to something slightly more elegant / less horrible
6. Enjoy my last few months as an undergraduate