14 Dec 2008

Conversion to WordPress

Okay, I’ve just spent a chunk of this weekend moving this entire site to WordPress. I figured I didn’t want to change too much at once, so I’ve pretty much just cloned the entire existing site. It was easier than I thought; WordPress 2.7 seems pretty solid. The theme was quite an easy conversion from […]

8 Dec 2008

WordPress 2.7 and Safari and the Infinite Login Loop

Ow. I just spent about an hour bashing my head against a brick wall. I’m trying out the WordPress 2.7 Release Candidate 1 at the moment, on a little local testbed. Which turned out to be my problem. I installed WordPress fine, on a domain I’d called “gothick_wp.test”, just set up locally on Apache. But […]

17 Sep 2008

Book Published!

Hurrah! As Hayley, my erstwhile editor, notes in her blog, the book that I wrote a moderate chunk of last year has now been published: Defining Moments in Science: Over a Century of the Greatest Scientists, Discoveries, Inventions and Events That Rocked the Scientific World Disclaimer: I don’t actually have a copy of it yet, […]

18 Aug 2008

Failure

Meh. I just failed to manage even a twenty-minute meditation. I got through about 15 half-arsed minutes, then couldn’t continue. The mug of half-caffeinated coffee I had before I started may have some connection (I ran out of decaf, dammit. I should have had green tea.) I’m feeling completely scattered and unable to concentrate. Think I’ll […]

13 Aug 2008

XVnc, GDM and gksu root access in Debian (Etch)

Notes to self: (and to any other poor fool who’s (a) been trying to get things set up with the rather elderly inetd.conf file format and (b) trying to get “run as root” applications working in GNOME and been getting various Authentication Rejected-style problems…) When setting up XVnc in inetd, make sure you provide argv[0], i.e. […]