Oops 10 Jun 2011 Rule number 1 when doing a large scale edit to a blog: turn off all automatic notifications. If you got a request to join Gravatar just now, or you saw a slew of notifications of old posts on Twitter or Facebook, my bad. I’m importing all the old posts from the previous incarnation of Evolving Thoughts to this custom hosting site. I didn’t realise that the widgets and plugins I have set up would treat each imported post and comment as a new one. So I just spammed the known universe. I shall now go and bury my very red face in my pillow and sob uncontrollably for a while. On the positive side, I now have about three times as many posts and comments as I used to. Maybe. I don’t have the backbone to go check right now… Administrative Administrative
Administrative Too big for my boots 13 Feb 2011 I can no longer use the online WordPress export function to back my blog up – I have to ask WordPress to do it. This is because the size of the blog and comments and graphics, etc. has exceeded their latency time and so it times out. Oh dear… it… Read More
Administrative For the past week, I’ve actually been in Germany 15 Oct 2009 You know those stories about absent minded professors? I just showed that you don’t actually need a professorial appointment. I was meeting Steve Clarke, a leading philosopher who is at Oxford, at 12.45. I turned up on the dot at St Cross College (they have such great names here!), but… Read More
Administrative What is a homology? 2 Jun 2010 No, not that kind, but the mathematical kind. I tried to read the online definitions, but they all presume other mathematical terminology and knowledge I don’t have. So can anyone explain, in words that don’t assume I have done a course in topology, what a mathematical homology is? Pretty please? Read More
That’s ok, some of us needed a poke in the stomach to get us to realize we had been neglecting something important.
Speaking of mistakes, one of my relatives argues that the lack of a coffee gland disproves creationism, for a just and kind god would have given us said coffee gland. The other possible response is, of course, “Who is this we?”