I’ve finished converting everything on this site to WordPress. In general, I’m quite pleased with the transition process and I believe that I’ve made everything look as close to the old site as possible. The one thing that’s missing, that I couldn’t resolve technically, was the use of newspaper columns for my articles. When I …
This is a very quick post to say that I’ve now switched from Moveable Type to WordPress. I like working with WordPress a lot more, however there’s an extensive amount of work I need to do on the site as a whole to re-integrate everything and “skin” it to look like it did before. As …
I’ve recently discovered (because I never comment on my own blog entries) that comments are no longer working. Instead, when trying to add a comment, I get a nice error message that doesn’t tell me anything. The software my blog is currently using is Moveable Type. I’ve been using this since version 3.x was released, …
I just read a news story about some people who showed up for Halloween as a KKK member and one of his victims (somebody dressed up in “black face”). They showed up at an event at the Campbellford branch of the Royal Canadian Legion, kicking off a firestorm of protest and indignation over the blatant …
I recently decided that I’d investigate getting a new keyboard for home and work. Up until then I’d been using a Microsoft Natural keyboard for a few years and had quite enjoyed it. For any touch-typist, it makes things easier and reduces strain on your wrists – but I suspected that there were still better …
After months of work again, on and off, I’ve got the new server online. For all that I wish I hadn’t lost it all earlier, I actually did learn some new things rebuilding it from scratch once more. In the process, I also had a look at the latest Horde / Imp for a Web-based …
I can recall a time in my past when I didn’t mind using phones. After over 5 years in a support position, however, where my regular routine has been to sit waiting to pick up phone calls, I hate the things with a passion. Not only do I despise having to use the instruments, if …
All of my work over the past few months to upgrade my servers has been lost. I ran into some kind of compatibility problem between ESXi 3.5 u4, and then later ESXi 4, and my server hardware that caused networking to / from my virtual machines, the ESXi server, and my workstation to stop. The …
Shortly after Christmas, I bought myself something I’d known about for a while but didn’t have the money to afford – an electronic book reader. The one I picked, mainly because it’s the only kind available and/or really usable in Canada, was the Sony Reader. I went with the PRS-505 model, even though the newer …
I haven’t posted anything in a while. This is because I’d been working on moving my server from its old operating system (Fedora) to something new (Gentoo) – and that process took a bit of time. During the transition, I didn’t want to post anything new because, if I did, I’d have to worry about …