Weapons grade infinte snark, probably.
He seems to have stopped blogging a few years back. I kinda miss his epic rants and Learning $whatever The Hard Way stuff. Part of me hopes them and whoever used to run n-gate moved to Portland and are now running a bespoke hand made piano business together or something.
I suspect that Zed and the n-gate author would not get along, given how ~~insufferable~~ opinionated the former is.