Eat your heart out, LiveJournal.
The cron job to back up my WordPress database, including the attachments, is in place and working. I can breathe a lot easier now.
The impracticality of backups was one of the reasons I wasn’t happy with any of the SixApart offerings. I hope they’ll take note.
Read more...Nostalgia Part 2...
I can only find the remnants of the site I had in the mid-90s at Novia.net in Omaha. The original was even grosser-looking, with tiling water drops rendered in POV-Ray as a background. Maybe it’s burned to a CD somewhere. If I can ever find it I’ll post it here, as a warning to my children not to code HTML by hand.
Read more...... Awkward.
In addition to everyone I’ve e-mailed, we also have two Christian congregations and one Asatru kindred praying for Jeremy and for us. :P
Read more...“There are two kinds of pains in the ass: the obnoxious boor - to be avoided on all teams - and the person who never learned that grownups shouldn’t ask ‘Why?’ all the time. The latter is a treasure.”-Dave Thomas, on selecting job candidatesI’m sitting in on a job interview this afternoon, so I’m looking into interviewing techniques, and this quote caught my eye… (This is Dave Thomas of the Ruby community, not the fast-food community.)
Read more...Splat!
gravity = EnvironmentalFactor.new
accelerate = Behavior.new
accelerate.add_action {|target| target.vector.y += 9.8}
gravity.behaviors << accelerate
environment.environmental_factors << gravity