Green Gabbro

… 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.

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Tomorrow morning I’m off for a (work)week perambulating around Yosemite, throwing thermometers into springs and Camping For Science. I’ll try my very hardest not to be eaten by a bear.

So tomorrow morning I’m off to Iceland. I’m sitting next to my very attractive younger sister:

Now they’re going to know that I told you to say that, and they’ll say, well, your younger sister is stuck up.
HEY you quoted me!
This blog is journalism! Don’t say things if you don’t want me to quote you. I’m […]

So here I am in Iowa, where the water content of the atmosphere actually violates the laws of physics and chemistry. My nose appreciates the extra hydration - dried-out crusty desert boogers are no fun - but the rest of me wants to sprawl on the floor and die.
This is how I got here:

I knew […]

This is a test of future-dated posting. It should appear at 6 AM Monday morning (PST) and no earlier. If all goes well, I’ll be dropping a few posts in time capsules to give all y’all a chance to look back fondly upon the fabulous days of June, during the hopefully-not-too-much-less-fabulous days of July and […]

Last week, Sean Carroll had the brilliant idea of using the Friday Random Ten as a traditional tarot reading. Although I expect it’s too much effort to do this every week, today I wanted to consider the question of What To Do With This Blog While I Am Away. If anyone has a definitive answer, […]