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 Open Lab 08 28 Sep 2008 I note with alarums that nobody has nominated any of my posts for the forthcoming Open Laboratory 2008 book that Bora and others are preparing. Maybe my quality has dropped, but if you think there’s one worth including, do nominate it using the button at the bottom left. Read More
Administrative More roundup 15 Sep 2008 Mohan Matthen, a philosopher of biology, has a very nice takedown of Thomas Nagel’s qualified support for teaching creationism on his blog. Hat tip Leiter. Richard Losick has an excellent piece on the problems of using cultured lab strains when studying microbes, at Small Things Considered. A new blog on… Read More
Administrative Don’t use my uni email [do] 27 Jan 202319 Apr 2023 Although I am an Honorary Fellow at the University of Melbourne, now that I am no longer employed, the IT department begs to differ, so I have lost my uni email access for a while. Later: IT and the uni have permitted me to be listed as an honorary fellow… 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?”