Something happened to the DNS again 24 Mar 2011 For some reason my DNS settings reverted to the old blog. I’m trying to wrestle with the settings to prevent that happening again. This blog should be pretty much as it now is for a while. Administrative Administrative
Administrative 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… Read More
Administrative Vote now! 3 Jun 2010 I have a couple of posts nominated (one by me – it’s time to stop being humble) at the 3quarksdaily Science competition here. I won’t win, because that torrent of good science writing, Ed Yong, is nominated, not to mention Carl Zimmer and sundry others, and the Pharynguloids will of… Read More
Administrative The bloggy kindness of strangers 26 Apr 2011 Whoever you are, I have always depended on the kindness of strangers. [Blanche DuBois, in Streetcar Named Desire 1951] I am going to do something I very rarely do: boost a commercial product. In the running of this blog I incur a number of recurring costs (NB: see “Donate” button… Read More
I commented on DNS problems in your earlier thread (the one introducing the new site). The executive summary: I think it will sort itself out in less than one day.
Much more funny / mysterious with a German background: OMFSM, what happened to the DNA?! (both spellings DNA and DNS ending in -säure still coexist. DNA has obvious international support, but Acid/Azid- is limited to very specific terminology)