It is a measure of the vileness of much spam that when I get one entitled "Increase your business," I'm not sure whether I'm being offered a direct-marketing service or penis enlargement.
How nice to wake up in the morning and discovered that one has been Boinged! And that the bandwidth usage for my site has pegged in the red.
One element of my new site redesign I want to point is my bibliography page. Cross-indexed, cross-referenced, and fully interactive! I continue to wonder why I didn't switch from hand-crafted HTML pages to Movable Type years ago. By the way, suggestions for bibliography interface improvement are very welcome.
It looks like it's working! I'm pretty pleased with this mirroring script I wrote. I've even been writing my own Movable Type plugin to help customize my site. More later on all the exciting, grotty details.
This entry is a test to check whether or not my new Perl script is working as an automatic cron job. If it is, this entry should automatically be mirrored to my new Movable Type blog at approximately a quarter to the hour. I will sit here not watching the
Site redesign in progress!
I've had Movable Type installed for use with my domain. Not that I plan to abandon LiveJournal, but I do plan to start using MT to manage most of my web site. Now, to learn how.
Remind me never to try explaining Boolean logic to lay colleagues again.
It seems that Shunn.net and the usually ultra-reliable Pair.com (my Web host) are completely inaccessible this morning. Wondering if it was just a local DNS problem, I VNC'd to my work machine and tried from there. No go. No word on how long the outage will
This being the every otherth Monday evening, I should be recording my biweekly podcast. However, in the past two weeks we've replaced our home desktop machine, and apparently the mike jack on the new machine is underpowered compared to the old one. The mike records only very faintly.
Hey, I have a podcast! Not that I will ever update it with any frequency whatsoever, but if you subscribe you might possibly end up having a ShunnCast appear as if by magic on your iPod once or twice a year. Maybe.
As if there weren't enough already. So I installed the latest upgrade to AOL Instant Messenger the other day. Now, I'm no naif here. I've done this enough times to know that, after an AIM upgrade, you have to go back into your preferences
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