Wordpress Administrivia: I need to clean up the links list. There’s no interface for deleting and replacing links in Wordpress 2.X, so I downloaded wp-suicide.php.
Hope it works….
later …and it does.
Kudos for the Scariest Wordpress Plugin EVAR.
I particularly like the final dialog box: “For the love of God, are you sure?”
Not for the faint of mind.
We now resume our typical bursty mode of posting lots of stuff occasionally.
The last couple of weeks have been filled with a stew of cognitive dissonance here: mornings spent in classes where I’m fumbling with basics, followed by afternoons spent in Expert Engineer mode; one day proving to my mentors that I may be qualified to pursue a degree in my chosen field, the next day at an invitation-only workshop catching up with luminary friends and old colleagues who do scientific and engineering work my previous day’s mentors [apparently] can’t imagine.
But, qualified or not, expert or not, friend-of-cool or not, it is summer. Nobody pays me now, and I can get back to the writing, the button-pushing, the Actual Work, and above all else the thankless task of thinking out loud.
Hell, thinking will be a welcome change.
I understand comment and referrer spam from pr0n and enlargement sites. I get the idea of spam from all-info-about-handtools. But I confess, even as a paid futurist, that I never imagined a world in which I would get several hundred spam comments a week from what appear to be Zoroastrians.
I mean, how Cyberpunk is that, anyway?
Thanks to Kashou for the so-far-so-good-seeming tonus Wordpress theme. Expect minor tweaks, fizzes, and pops to be occurring as time allows.
Finally, with Barbara’s help, we’re running WP 2.0.1. Please let me know if there are any technical issues, especially with the Bad Behavior spambot blocker I’m running.
End of semester. Project, project, homework, test, test, test, grant.
I am jotting things to share with you. They may pop up now and then, as a fist waved at my crowded iCal.
Nuff said.
I’ve downloaded and installed the Wordpress theme “Thirteen”. I’m not so sure about the flowery butterfly thing that’s happening, and some sidebar material has been inadvertently rearranged. Thoughts?
I find it a bit more legible. Do you?
…by learning some LaTeX.
Thus explaining the paucity of stuff here, and also why I tend to include random \backslashes and braces\footnote{because that’s how you do crap in TeX} in my emails now.
And, just to give a preview of what I will probably be chanting under my breath and bringing up at inopportune moments at cocktail parties for many months to come: TexShop rocks.
OK, so enough already with the emails containing sly hints about “having to” read the new blog in an RSS feed. I know it’s 1995-style C&A† gaudiness, but at least it runs. That’s a start, eh? And it’s legible, and functional, and rather designed.
Theme to be updated gradually over the next few days, as time permits. Then, please, return to your original browsy mode before I go entirely broke….
†And if you don’t know what I mean, then you were apparently not living in Europe in the mid 90’s, were you? Sheesh. Lime and tangerine. Particularly in all the damned clothes on offer in C&A. Everywhere. Godawful mess it was, too.
Pontification without all the gritty gravitas
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