Upgrading WordPress this time meant reinstalling it from scratch, unfortunately, since last week’s auto-update somehow deleted all my posts. But this is why we back up. So the blog is back up and running again, with a shiny new 3.01 version of WordPress. And hopefully going forward auto-updates will even work.
I’ve been having way too much fun with the new python scripts released by the Echo Nest Remix Project. These are a bunch of geeky little command line scripts that let you treat music as data, figuring out where the beats and measures are in a song, then letting you go wild from there. Their [...]
Like a damn fool true fanboy I installed Apple’s Snow Leopard the day it came out. Sure, it was faster, and I liked the polishes they made to the user experience. But it broke a lot of things that made it possible for me to develop web sites on my laptop: MySQL, all my Perl [...]
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The last week of September 22 was a great time to sail on the historic schooner J&E Riggin out of Rockland, Maine. Captains John and Annie and their wonderful crew made sure we were safe, well-fed, and entertained. This was the first time I’d gone sailing where Julie was on the crew, and it was [...]