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An appeal to my American readers…

December 13, 2009 – 10:11 pm

This is a fairly blatant exercise in tourism blegging, so if you don’t live on the Eastern Seaboard of the USA, then feel free to ignore it.
I will be attending a conference in Washington DC from 19-21 February, 2010, and (having done this once before) would like to avoid flying across the pond, staying for [...]

By skepticlawyer | Also posted in General, Society | Comments (3)

Wordpress is still half-baked junk

August 2, 2009 – 6:30 pm

Normally-invisible Jacques here.
Those of you who know me know that I regularly complain about Wordpress. In their rush to add ever more features and introduce new-shineys, the developers of Wordpress generally can’t be arsed to close old bugs, write proper tests or confirm that their software isn’t lame rubbish.
Latest pet peeve: version 2.8 doesn’t correctly [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (5)

I broke it

June 21, 2009 – 10:15 pm

Sorry, my fault.

By Jacques Chester | Comments (4)

Happy Birthday to Us

May 19, 2009 – 6:54 pm

I just realised that our joint blog is now over one year old.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO US!
Personally, I’m delighted with the results, and I hope you are too.

By Legal Eagle | Comments (19)

Helping Jacques

May 7, 2009 – 4:36 pm

Our tech-guru Jacques is doing a subject called Software Quality & Measurement at UWA. He’s developed two different procedures for calculating monthly mortgage repayments, and needs people to test which one is better. (For further details from the horse’s mouth, see Jacques’ post at Club Troppo here).
It is anonymous, simple and takes no longer than [...]

By Legal Eagle | Also posted in Blogging | Comments (0)

Another thing I got wrong

April 8, 2009 – 9:22 pm

I misconfigured postfix, the server program that handles the delivery of emails on behalf of Wordpress and some other programs. I’d done some fancy stuff to make sure SL’s avatar showed properly but didn’t test it. Consequently postfix began to accept mail into its pending queue, but stopped sending any.
Today, looking at the server stats, [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (0)

More kerfupsing

April 4, 2009 – 5:34 pm

A few days ago the server went bonkers and locked up. At the time I was not sure why. I restarted the HTTP server (in our case, Lighttpd) and everything seemed to return to normal. That’s usually how you know everything is completely broken.
Today the server went nuts again. For the nerds amongst you, it [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (1)

Sorry folks

April 2, 2009 – 11:32 am

The server threw some sort of wobbly. It seems to be working now. We now return you to your regularly scheduled erudition, humour and wisdom.

By Jacques Chester | Comments (0)

An update

December 21, 2008 – 3:34 pm

Amongst the various websites I have a hand in, Skepticlawyer is the first one which I’ve moved to Wordpress 2.7. If there’s a sudden decline in posting volume from SL and LE, you can blame the all-new interface that came down the pipe.

By Jacques Chester | Comments (3)

Disruptions

August 29, 2008 – 11:24 am

Sorry folks, it’s me. These days when I install Wordpress I do a checkout from the main source repository, which has the nice property that I need only run a single command to update the exact files which change from version to version without having to do anything chancy.
At least, that’s the theory. It’s not [...]

By Jacques Chester | Comments (0)