Well,I finally bit the bullet and did a complete from the ground rebuild of the site. This involved exporting the database, wiping all the databases (I’ve acquired several after all the incarnations of this site) wiping all the files after a backup and then reinstalling and importing the database into a fresh database install. All [...]
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Wordpress 2.8 Upgrade problems
June 12th, 2009
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Just a quick note. Today I upgraded this site to WordPress 2.8 . As usual I used the WordPress Automatic Upgrade Plugin, but after the upgrade was finished I started getting weird gzinflate / guncompress errors.
The site worked fine but I would see the errors when I tried to upgrade a plugin. Searching the [...]
Thoughts On A Blue Pantsless Man
March 9th, 2009
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Last weekend Jess and I went to see Watchmen. This is not a review of the movie. In brief, I liked it. Not a masterpiece like the graphic novel, but a good movie. Read the book, then see the movie and all will be good. What kind of caught me is in all the reviews, [...]
Wall Street on the Tundra – Explaining Iceland’s Financial Meltdown
March 4th, 2009
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Vanity Fair has a great article on Iceland’s current economic troubles. It’s long, but very informative and entertaining. To put our financial crisis in perspective, Iceland’s debt is 850% of it’s GDP and the stock market fell 85%. Although it has nothing to do with the financial crisis, this was by far my favorite line:
Because [...]
Links for your consideration
February 4th, 2009
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I’m having a hard time getting around to writing. It’s been busy at work and I’ve been suffering a lack of motivation. I have run across a couple of articles that I would like to share though.
Giant killers: macropredation in lions
The Lions of Savuti work in large packs to hunt and kill elephants. Fascinating behavior [...]
All aTwitter Redux : 9 Months In
January 26th, 2009
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It’s been almost 9 months since I started using Twitter and it’s kind of been a revelation. I was looking at my old post back when I first joined and laughed when I saw how skeptical that I was that I was going to find it at all useful. As it stands now, Twitter is [...]
Please excuse the mess
December 20th, 2008
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OK, I think that I’ve managed to get everything back up and running. It all looks different bu I’m pretty happy with the layout. Something got HOSED with the RSS feed though so if you subscribe via a feedreader (and you really should, some of this stuff is pure genius:) ) I would re-subscribe. Here’s [...]
Happy Supercollider Day!
September 10th, 2008
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Happy Supercollider Day! Today the CERN Large Hadron Collider was turned on. Basiclly, the physicists just ran a string of particles around the 27km track at near the speed of light. It won’t be until later in the year that they start ramming particles into each other and the real science begins.
I thought I would [...]
Blame it on Twitter
September 8th, 2008
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Recently I’ve been having trouble keeping up on my blogging. It’s not that I don’t feel like writing. In fact, I am writing more then ever. The problem seems to be that it has all been on twitter. The instant gratification of those short bursts make anything else seem like work.
The problem is, I feel [...]
Wordpress Upgrades
July 21st, 2008
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I’ve gone and updated this blog to the latest version of Wordpress. If you run a wordpress blog, you should really check out the Wordpress Automatic Upgrade plugin. Wordpress upgrading is a pretty straight forward process, but why not just set it up so you can click through an upgrade.
The plugin will backup your installation [...]
