How I Rescued My Blog from Google’s Cache

Detail-oriented readers may have noticed the sudden appearance of a full-fledged category list, which, if you explore, is the gateway to a fully populated set of archives stretching once again back to the misty pre-9/11 world of innocence and laughter.
After the cut: nerdy details of how I recovered, just in case anyone else has a […]

Friday Review of Stuff

Whole Foods 365 Mac’n’cheez: 365 is the Whole Foods store brand that focuses on “all-natural” hippie brand image, rather than actual sustainable or organic production. Making a “natural” cheez powder rather defeats the purpose of mac’n’cheez in a box, which is to get that delightful chemical tang in a convenient and attractively nuclear orange packet […]

If You Can Read This…

… it means the DNS change has propagated. It is now safe to unbuckle your safety belts and move about the cabin, unless maybe it isn’t.

Going Underwater

I’ve signed myself up with a new web host. There are files to copy, settings to tweak, designs to fiddle with, and databases to attempt to restore.
And some papers to read before the weekend is over.
If the site looks funny all of a sudden, that’s why. Don’t leave any comments you don’t mind seeing thrown […]

Hello world!

Have you backed up your database lately? I don’t just mean hitting the “full backup” button on your web site’s control panel; I mean backing up your databases. Because apparently the “full backup” button doesn’t do that. Neither does your web host - their vaunted “daily backups” only cover your home directory file structure. If […]

Nerds for the Cause of Justice I: Proof of Concept

At long last, my interest in blogular technology has the potential to pay off in the Righteous Struggle for Justice! The story, for those of you who don’t live in my radical corner of Blogospheria, has been aptly summarized by Piny, as follows:

Basically, the problem (part of the problem) is this: a “little” blogger will […]

Oops

Some gentle readers are more alert than I am:

is it just me being banned, or are the comments fubar-ish?

I appear to have been bitten by this bug; I should’ve known the sudden drop in comment spam was just too good to be true.
All your erroneously-spambinned comments have been restored, hoorah! And your lives - which […]

Year-End Bloggy Wrap-Up

So I actually have multiple posts in the draft queue that will outshine this year’s entire output combined with their dazzlingly pure incomprehensibility pretentiousness wit and insight. But I’m just on the edge of sick, my head feels like one of those fluffy, dynamically unstable rings around Uranus*, I probably won’t finish any of ‘em […]

New Plugin: Recently Spammed

I figured this plugin would be easy to do, given the right starting point, and boy was I ever correct. Setting up the documentation took twice as long as actually writing the plugin itself.
So, I bring you Recently Spammed, the WordPress plugin that tells you what the spambots have been reading lately. You can see […]

The Devil Is In

Geology News is looking for guest bloggers
Wait a minute - I thought hipsters drank cheap, “ironic” domestic beer? Whatever happened to PBR?
If you look down to the right, you’ll notice that I’ve put up a couple of new themes, one of which is about pirates. However, it is not yet filtered into pirate-speech. I’d say […]