Archive for March, 2005
Thursday, March 31st, 2005
First, congratulations Heidi! Following Heather's lead, Heidi passed her candidacy exam today and is now officially a Ph.D. candidate. A job very well done. (Anticlimatic, in Heidi's words.)
For dinner tonight, I picked up three of the new KFC Snacker sandwiches and a large order of potato wedges. I ordered one ...
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
I have successfully transitioned my old blog from Blogger to my own personal server. MySQL and PHP are providing the braun; WordPress is providing the beauty. Okay, that's not entirely accurate. WordPress does more than beautify the blog. In fact, I might be more impressed with WordPress than any other ...
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Tuesday, March 29th, 2005
I am currently in the process of transitioning my old blog from Blogger to WordPress. The Blogger site has been having many problems in the last 24 hours or so, and thus my transition is being slowed. That is, however, part of the reason I'm making the transition to begin ...
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Monday, March 28th, 2005
Since last fall, I have seen tons of articles around the web comparing Mozilla's Firefox to Microsoft's Internet Explorer. Some of the articles even mention Apple's Safari or the Opera web browser. I honestly had to sit down and ask myself, "Why do I care about a web browser? Is ...
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Sunday, March 27th, 2005
Lent is over (today being Easter Sunday), and I successfully completed my six and a half weeks of meatless dieting. I did eat seafood, however, and I would guess I did so about twice a week. Ariele and I were able to find a handful of vegeterian recipes that really ...
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Friday, March 25th, 2005
Now that the file server for our lab's cluster has been repaired and is running smoothly again, I have undertaken the task of building two new file servers for our lab's use. The file servers should be designed to be identical (or nearly so), mirror each other (as far as ...
Posted in GNU/Linux | 7 Comments »