Archive for June, 2006

Wimbledon! And no blogging for some time.

Yes, that’s right. Wimbledon started today (though NBC coverage doesn’t start until Saturday). I have strawberries. I have cream. I have tea. Heck, I even have Pimms. Life is good.
On the whole coding front, it seems that in my excitement to learn how to code by picking a project and diving right in, I’ve forgotten […]

Coding begins!

So, I’ve posted a small roadmap at this page on Dan’s/everybody’s wiki, and am now in the process of installing Ruby on Rails locally on OSX, using the guide linked to from the Ruby on Rails homepage.
Anyway, the guide recommends having a tasty beverage to drink while waiting for things to compile. In that vein, […]

Link: How not to sell chess software

This is why the Boylston Chess Club’s blog rocks. Hopefully, I’ll have enough time to hang out there once in a while in the fall (it’s in the Boston area).

Safari

Just looked at my site with Safari, and realized that something is messed up. It still loads in Camino, which makes me figure that Camino is being more generous to my HTML. This will be a good excuse to look under the hood of Wordpress for a while. Pardon my dust while I do this […]

Testing, 123

Just testing out Bunny’s Technorati Tags plugin for Wordpress. If I can’t get something like Performancing for Camino or Safari, and I’m not terribly interested in trying out Flock for a second time after seeing how fast Camino and Safari are, I decided to make tagging easy to do straight from the post-writing page. Now […]

OpenID

OK, after a lot of stress, I’ve finally managed to create an openID identity with the help of myopenID.com. I’d like to be able to get avatars in there, but that’ll be for another day.
I’m also not crazy about the fact that all of my pages on this blog have the appropriate text in the […]

Comments

So I, idiot that I am, just figured out that comments need to be moderated first. I just changed the settings so that the blog will only block your comment pending moderation the first time you comment with a given combination of name and email address. I may change that later to be more liberal. […]

First post of summer

Quick note to those who may be looking at this from a trackback: this post is probably not really a comment on the conversation you were reading. I mostly only include the trackback URLs so that people know when I’m linking to their stuff.
That said, I finished my new morning routine and started writing […]


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Though wagging his tail,
Dan barked, "Throw the traitor in jail!"
So to soothe the bulldog,
I insist I won't blog, but


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