Category Archives: Administrivia

Migration

I’ve received my “golden ticket” that lets me migrate from an old and crumbling TextDrive BSD server to a Joyent Accelerator.

Hence, many things that have been put off (like fixing the horribly broken blog and website) will happen. And everything will break for a while. Sorry about that. It’ll be better when everything is over [...]

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Talk is free

It seems that comment spam and blog comments have done some subtle damage.

You see, until just now, I had Wordpress set so that only previously-approved authors got automatically accepted for comments. I figured, that was enough — if you’ve posted before, no problem. Otherwise, hold for moderation, and I’d just accept the real comments.

Then I [...]

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Ubuntu: Ancient african word for ‘less painful than a poke in the eye’

My five year old, home-built PC is now running Ubuntu seven point something something. It was that, or reinstall Windows XP.

Again.

Let’s just say that if I was going to put XP on this machine again, I’d be using an axe to do it. There are limits beyond which no-one should be pushed.

So. How was it?

Fairly [...]

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Sucking is the enemy of perpetual incompleteness

New, blank sketchbooks are intimidating.

I tend to self-edit when there’s no Undo command. If you only put the good ideas down, then you’re improving the quality of your output, right?

Except, it doesn’t work that way. The only way you get to the good ideas is by having dozens of bad ones. And the good sketch [...]

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Pardon our mess…

Updating Wordpress, things will be wonky for a little bit…

…and that’s done. :)

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Blogging from TextMate

Via John Gruber, here is an excellent screencast of the blogging bundle in TextMate.

Woot, I say.

Screenshot after the cut, for extra nerdy goodness.

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Excuse the mess.

Getting around to really doing something about this space, administration-wise.

Let’s pretend that that’s because I’ve been too efficient in my real work, okay?

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Off to Georgia

At 3:00 a.m. tonight, I’m on my way to Georgia for an IDSA meeting.

(Translation: I get to escape New England in winter for a weekend. Woe is me. :))

I’ve got post-by-email from my Treo working, via Flickr, and the trip is going to involve a riverboat gambling night, so I hope some interesting pictures should [...]

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Hola

Given that I’ve been handing out cards with the address of this blog on it, I can hardly act as if it’s private anymore, so I suppose I should say “welcome.”

I’m currently at the O’Reilly Emerging Technology Conference in San Diego, California. I have more than a little repetitive stress injury, and have been typing [...]

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