Archive for the 'miscellaneous' Category

Moving things around

Please apologize the glitches while I upgrade to Wordpress 2.2.2.
Things are sort of OK now, except I have lost the navigation sidebar in single post view.
I will probably not bother, as this upgrade is part of the big moving plan.
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Interviewed by the Queen o’ memes

So there was this interview thing going on between the various bloggers around me. You got to be asked five questions and post the answers along with the questions on your blog. The fun part is that you could tag yourself: you just had to leave ‘interview me’ as a comment in somebody else’s interview post, and that somebody would have to send you five questions for you. I knew who I wanted to be interviewed by, so I just waited until Emily was interviewed by Charlotte (who had herself been interviewed by Kit, and so forth).

But you know I can never simply do a meme: I have to make it my very own. So I decided I’d do this interview as a pencast. It takes two people to make an interview; it takes two handwritings to make a pencast interview. I therefore shamelessly asked my patient interviewer to send me her questions again, but by analog pen-and-paper mail.

You are about to discover the first pencast duet in the history of the Internet.
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Out in the bush

I’ll be leaving on vacation in 30 minutes. Hiking and sightseeing. I am not sure I can stay away from an internet connection for the two whole weeks, though, so you’re bound to hear from me. In any case, I have arranged for nice photographs to appear here every few days even if I am not around.

Port de Venasque -- French-Spanish border -- 1998

Mandarine is back

update: it seems the server is now working OK. The conclusions are not changed.

Our humblest apologies for the break in transmission.
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Sorry about that

Apparently, an empty scheduled post went off while I had no access to my site (server mostly down). I am confused. The post will be published next week: it is a meme, which goal is to make a righteous dent to the Mr Nice impression this blog gives about me. Five Fateful Flaws is the title, and from what you’ve just seen, you can imagine forgetfulness is nominated.

Ten things I liKe (6-10)

The sequel of the ten things I like. The first five were:

  • The letter k
  • Kant (philosophy)
  • Kindergarten (rural public schools)
  • Kilimandjaro (global warming)
  • KDE (Linux)

Here are entries 6-10: [more]

Keeping track of comments — the quick and dirty way

I have looked at reviews on automated comment management plugins. Nothing seems perfect. I suggest a basic low-tech semi-manual approach that can help you follow-up on comments you have left in blogs. I describe it with Firefox. [more]

Ten things I liKe (1-5)

I do not know whence the contagion originated, but I know I caught it from Charlotte who had been infected after visiting a Kitten.
Here are ten things I liKe, ten things the mandarine blog is about: [more]

Aah, a site map !

I am celebrating my fiftieth post or thereabouts. It took me six months to finetune the general perimeter of the main themes. Now that the scope is nicely stabilizing, I offer you a global overview of where this blog is going.

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So long, 500 internal server errors !

I knew fidelity would pay. My hosting service has finally fixed the hosting server (so it seems) (until next time). [more]