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 I am an idiot 13 Jul 2010 I decided not to continue being the manager of a technical computing graphics department when I realised that my staff knew more than I did. I hadn’t realised until a few minutes ago that I now must relinquish the title of “geek”. There’s nothing wrong with my offline editor. I… Read More
Administrative Happenings 21 Jan 2008 So, I just found out that I’m teaching this semester, which is a comfort (money will come in, and we can eat) and a pain (I am going to Arizona in March, so we will have to sort out some guest lectures or something). The subject is philosophy of the… Read More
Administrative Win Apple stuff. Give it to me. 12 Aug 20084 Oct 2017 Our Seed Overlords have bling to give away. All you have to do is take a survey and they might give you an iPhone 3G, a MacBook Air and a 40GB Apple TV. Keep the Air and give me the rest if you win. Don’t tell the Overlords though. They… 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?”