tags: meta
1999
October
- 1999 Oct 3
- The Parable of the Cave
Something about taking thoughts/thought systems/memes and analyzing them as discrete particles—have you not created a new mind pattern, less exact than what you are describing, like what a mirror does, specifically, a pair of mirrors facing each other, or like loss compression algorithms.
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2000
November
- 2000 Nov 6
- XML, XSLT, and way too much free time
Waste a weekend HOWTO
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2001
April
- 2001 Apr 21
- Shrugging Off Existentialism
Philosophy and abstractions. Low self-esteem due to a superiority complex. The balance of opposing forces. The mammalian inability to be precise. Why can’t I be normal?
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- Contradictions, Contraindications, Mental Masturbation
Recursive discursive meta-meditation. Blog culture. Oops, I didn’t get to it. Why won’t you listen to me?
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July
- 2001 Jul 30
- Technical Difficulties
Why does this exist?
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August
- 2001 Aug 20
- 3rd Person Pseudo-omniscient
More random fragments. Somedays I scare even myself.
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2002
February
- 2002 Feb 18
- Nuked!
Always make backups.
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2003
April
- 2003 Apr 12
- Signs and Symptoms
More brain barf. Yes I know I promised to stop thinking. Especially about women. Especially about what they’re thinking.
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August
- 2003 Aug 17
- notes on remotedotcomments
Making Blogger and remotedotcomments play nice. The dangers of not quoting properly.
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- cgi working
Blosxom seems to be working now. I think.
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September
- 2003 Sep 1
- end stage soul disease
Playing with categories in Blosxom.
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2006
February
- 2006 Feb 27
- trying a new blog engine
So I tried this once before but then I lost my admin password and so had to delete the nascent blog (previously at chronos.fatoprofugus.net, which no longer exists), and there are all sorts of things that have kept me from jumping onto the Wordpress bandwagon, which I will go into detail later, but since Dreamhost makes it blindingly easy to install Wordpress, I figured, what have I got to lose but a little precious sleep and a little rarefied sanity. (By the way, don't let the term SQL Server scare you, even though it scared the crap out of me, and is one of the reasons why I've been slow to adopt the newest shiny thing. Just fill in the blanks in semi-random fashion, just making sure that you write things down somewhere. Especially that admin password.)
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March
- 2006 Mar 14
- munged
Bah. Another reason why I distrust all this stuff-it-into-a-database business. On one of my last posts, I think I may have missed a closing quotation mark, or maybe a closing angle-bracket. Which will understandably make the rest of the post unreadable. Unfortunately, because I am using the built-in text-editor for Wordpress, the editor decided to url-escape everything after the mistake. While I was able to extract meaningful text from some of it, some of it simply fell into
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2007
April
- 2007 Apr 10
- problems with sleep-onset
I stupidly drank some Vietnamese iced coffee about 3 hours ago, and I’m wired and jittery and all over the place. I have to wake up in less than 6 hours to get ready for work.
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August
- 2007 Aug 25
- never what you expect
So, yes, now it's Simplelog, yet another blog engine running on Ruby on Rails. I guess I'll be sticking to the stable distribution right now, although it doesn't look like the codebase has really been touched in the past 6 months.
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September
- 2007 Sep 5
- commentary for the day
That last post was actually quite painful. Who knew that sifting through six years of blog posts could evoke such bathos?
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- reintegration
Now that I’ve found a blog engine that I’m relatively happy with, I’m thinking about folding all of my old entries into it. Not sure exactly what that will accomplish except that it will be easier to search for certain topics, but I’m sure that I’ll waste at least a few hours trying to figure it out.
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December
- 2007 Dec 22
- switching back from simplelog to mephisto
In case you didn't notice, I also switched my blog engine again. Now that Rails 2.0 is out, I thought I'd give Mephisto (from
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2008
July
- 2008 Jul 10
- now?/never?
I'm not really sure if I'm ready to abandon my last blog yet, but I felt like I needed a change of some sort. Actually, I probably need a lot of changes, but we'll start with one at a time.
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- and yet another change
Trying to decide on a Rails-based blog engine/CMS. I wish permalinks were easier to customize
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2015
July
- 2015 Jul 7
- tags in Jekyll
So it took me a while to figure out how to implement tags in Jekyll the way I wanted.
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September
November
- 2015 Nov 11
- full circle
Still amused by how I've gone full circle from Blosxom to Jekyll
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2016
February
- 2016 Feb 4
- Updated to Jekyll 3.1.1
I only just realized that Jekyll 3.1.1 had been released. (I've been running Jekyll 3.0.1 until today.)
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April
- 2016 Apr 7
- Web Browsers
It makes no sense to me, but having multiple different browser instances open (like, literally five different browser instances right now) seems to use memory more efficiently than if I had opened everything in multiple tabs in a single browser.
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August
- 2016 Aug 17
- Jekyll is Driving Me Crazy
*Attempts to optimize some code*
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