I switched the blog to WordPress, which seems the better way to go for free, feature-rich blogging software. Any recommendations for themes?

You can look at some of my photos on flickr.

Fed up with the hundreds of spam comments my blog receives every week, and with lots of help from Rob S. and Brad Templeton, I've added a simple turing test to the comments page. Now you must enter my first name.

I'm bored with the design of helmer.ca. Expect a new look very soon.

I've updated the the page that describes helmer.ca with a history of the different versions of helmer.ca. This history includes links to the various versions, as archived by the Internet Archive Wayback Machine. Some of the previous versions of helmer.ca are ugly! Maybe I've learned some things about web design since summer 2001.

I've switched to a Christmas theme for my web site. Let me know what you think. If you don't have the Matura MT Script Capitals font, then you are missing out on the intended effect.

I must be procrastinating. Oh yeah, those two term papers . . .

Just checked the stats for helmer.ca. Where are all these distinct hosts coming from? What are they looking for and what do they want? Soon I will publish my thesis and scare them all away!