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Finals week

April 19, 2006 at 9:59 pm · Filed under Project

‘Nuff said.

Back in a bit.

Zoroastrian spam

March 16, 2006 at 7:58 am · Filed under Project

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?

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Keeping mine own house in order… with AJAX

February 20, 2006 at 12:17 am · Filed under Project

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.

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Wordpress 2.0.1: Anybody who can’t read this, raise your hand

February 7, 2006 at 8:40 pm · Filed under Project

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.

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It’ll be quiet for a bit

December 5, 2005 at 8:11 am · Filed under Project

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.

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Thoughts on the new theme?

October 26, 2005 at 8:27 pm · Filed under Project

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?

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Learning how to make myself appear to have done some small portion of mathematics

October 1, 2005 at 10:25 pm · Filed under Project

…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.

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I am Hideous Green

July 19, 2005 at 6:16 pm · Filed under Project

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.

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we are all mere machines, and ones that can read and all, but that don’t mean we can read everything any machine can

July 14, 2005 at 12:49 pm · Filed under Project

I hate .htaccess mod_rewrite stuff.

hate hate hate hate hate infinity.

See, for hours now I’m trying to redirect visitors and RSS readers from the old Blosxom website to the new one. Three different .htaccess files are involved, and then there’s the order of the various and sundry opaque rules and regular expressions in each. I make changes here and here, and I know each part does what I think it should. But they interact behind my back. Tricksy parts.

And then it doesn’t work.

At least it isn’t worse than I started from. Yet.

[update, 11:41 pm] Yeah. Right. Everything we did to try to make the old paths get rewritten to the new paths was 100% correct. Except where, physically, we were putting the commands.

Next time you meet somebody talkin’ about how elegant finite state machines are and how nice the sequential processing system and hierarchical file structures is soooo easy to understand — you whap ‘em for me. Lightly. But firmly.

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