Weblog | I don't like the word blog, it's ugly. Anyway, new content happens here.

About me and the site | Twenty-something and likes text. Obsessed with things such as books, reality, communication, and one or two tv-shows.

Archives | Things written here since... well, 2001. Some of it is good, some is utter shait.

Books | Books read, not books written. So far I've struggled to maintain unpublished.

Links | Outwards, away, flee.

e-mail | J. Nicklas Andersson

Colophon

Note: Colophons doesn't really fill the same function here as they do in the offline, physical touch-my-paper variety. I don't care if they're useless, I like them. So there.

— About the site —

The Lost Pages began as homage to Jorge Louis Borges' fictional tome Vindication of Eternity as The Lost Pages of Vindication of Eternity. Yes, it was a long title and cumbersome to write. Gradually I began to shorten it more and more until only “the Lost Pages” bit remains. It has nothing to do with the Paul Di Filippo book, although I wish it had. That book is excellent and you should read it.

— About the typeface —

The typefaces used in the masthead are Bruno JB and Present for the tagline. The body can be whatever it wants on you system. My CSS guideline is Georgia, which works really well on the screen. I used to use Pontifex, and I like it so much that I've decided to keep the history below.

Poppl-Pontifex was drawn for Berthold Typefoundry by Friedrich Poppl, who at the time was Professor of Type and Typography at the Wiesbaden college of design. He began working on the type family in 1973 and was finished in April the next year. It is a medieval Antiqua, in which Poppl aspired to create the ideal 9-point type. It was made to be timeless, restrained and most of all legible. Unlike other medieval faces, Pontifex looks bigger at the same size. During the creation process, Poppl adapted and improved his work whenever it was called for, even though he himself wasn't all too sure if the criticism was valid. When finished, G. G. Lange at Berthold praised him and said it was the best thing he had done.

— About the content —

I've never really used the word "philistine," which is a shame. The word is quite neglected and were it a perfect world it ought to be used much more.

All audio was and will be been recorded with a Compaq microphone (they should continue doing these and stop making computers), Soundblaster Wavestudio as well as two crappy voices and one or two guitars. What we lack in skill we almost make up for in enthusiasm. Conversion from wav to MP3 was done with WinAmp 2.8 and Chen-Yu's MP3 Writer-plugin.

Photographs were in most cases taken by me with an Olympus 2100UZ digital camera. There is nothing wrong with it and I like it fine, but I want something with more megapixels as well. The eye is mine. I usually wear glasses, which makes it look like it belongs to someone else.

The backend is Movable Type 2.51 with a MySQL database. An RSS 1.0 file is available as well for those of you who are into that sort of thing. Linkspotting is done with Refer 1.1.

Everything is copyright (2001-2003). The content in quotes belongs to those who said and/or wrote it but unless anything else is stated it is made/written/blah by me. Please don't steal. Mostly I live after the ask and ye shall receive-principle. And if you quote, please, attribute properly. Preferably in a nice typeface, but that isn't necessary.

This site is dedicated to all those who died (or wished they had) during my short-movie craze at the end of the 80ies.