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Update

Thursday, August 5th, 2010

I haven’t posted anything in a while, so I thought it was time to post a quick update.

I’ll be taking two classes again this fall in the continuing pursuit of my PhD in Computer Science at Ole Miss. I’ll also be teaching CSci259/390 (C++) on Monday and Wednesday nights.

Sometime in late September or early October I’ll be taking my comprehensive exams, the first of three major milestones in the PhD process. There are four exams, covering Systems, Algorithms, Programming Languages, and Software Engineering. I’m not worried about them, but I’ll be glad when they’re over. Right now I feel guilty if I do anything other than study for “comps.”

I’ve recently finished my Small Wonder Labs SW-40+, a small Morse code radio for the 40m ham band. I’ll be posting about it soon. There are also several other ham radio and electronics projects I need to post about. Back in the spring I presented a tutorial on microcontrollers at the ACM Southeast conference.

James and I have another backpacking trip tentatively planned for September, which I’m really looking forward to. We had intended to go in the spring but got busy and never planned anything.

Of course, I need to post an update about Luke and Liam, which I will try to do soon.

Obviously, I plan on posting to my blog a little more frequently. I’ll continue to post shorter stuff over on Twitter.

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movl.net back up

Sunday, April 19th, 2009

Don’t worry loyal readers, movl.net is now back up!

What? You didn’t know it was down for several days? Yeah, neither did I. :)

I tried to log in tonight for the first time in over a week, only to find that the site was down. Then I remembered that Erik had told me on Friday that it was down recently we he had tried to access it. I just assumed my host was having a hiccup at the moment he tried to access it.

A couple of months ago Cassie and I had some fraudulent charges on our debit cards and had to get new cards. My web host didn’t bother to tell me they couldn’t charge my card, they just shut down my site after a couple of months of not being paid. An email would have been nice.

Does anyone have a cheap (< $10/month) they would be willing to recommend? I’ve never heard of a good one.

Updates coming soon.

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Comment feed

Tuesday, December 16th, 2008

My blog doesn’t get a ton of comments, but the few that get posted tend to be interesting. If you’re looking for an easy way to see all the comments, subscribe to this RSS feed.

If you’re still not using a feed reader, it’s time you started. I recommend Google Reader. The BBC has a good page explaining RSS.

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Excellent political discussion in the comments

Monday, November 3rd, 2008

In case you’ve missed it, there’s some excellent political discussion going on in the comments of a previous post. The comments are in response to this post. Yes, I had to beg for comments, but it worked.

It’s mostly Derek and I going back and forth, but I think it’s good stuff. I find it interesting than Derek and I agree in principle on most issues, but can still find so many things to disagree about. :)

I found another good article on the differences between the candidates regarding oil company taxes. According to it, the oil companies already pay a higher tax rate than most corporations. Apparently they also have a lot of loopholes they can use to get out of those taxes. It doesn’t say how their effective tax rate compares with that of other corporations.

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Installing and Upgrading WordPress with Subversion

Saturday, September 13th, 2008

I use WordPress to run this blog. It’s probably the most popular blogging software on the web, and for good reason. There are plugins out there for just about everything.

However, when it comes time to upgrade to a new version, I’ve always found their instructions a little lacking. I want very explicit instructions, and theirs aren’t. When it came time to do the upgrade to 2.6.1, I started looking for a better solution.

As it turns out, you can use Subversion to upgrade WordPress easily. I already use Subversion to keep track of all my personal files. Once you get it set up, all it takes to upgrade is running one Subversion command and running the upgrade script through your web browser as usual.

If you already have WordPress set up in the traditional fashion it’s a little work to get it set up “the Subversion way,” but not too bad, especially if you haven’t customized anything. It’s more than worth the trouble when it comes time to upgrade.

Of course, if you don’t want to bother with upgrades at all, you could just get an account on WordPress.com. That’s what I did for the Belmont High School Class of 1999 blog.

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Email subscriptions and RSS

Monday, August 18th, 2008

I have added a new page that allows you to sign up to receive an email each time I post a new blog entry. It also mentions RSS and Google Reader, my RSS reader of choice.

For those of you using WordPress for your blog, I’m using the Subscribe2 plugin for the email functionality. It was nice and easy to setup.

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The blog is back

Tuesday, August 5th, 2008

Hi everyone. I’ve been wanting to post to my blog now for quite some time, but my WordPress installation was way out of date. I’ve been procrastinating on upgrading for a while because I knew it would be painful.

Today I bit the bullet, wiped the old version, and installed WordPress from scratch. It took all of five minutes. Yes, I did back up my old posts before killing the old installation, but I doubt I’ll ever find the time to do anything with them.

A lot has happened in the months since I quit posting to my blog, and I’ll try to update everyone in the next couple of posts. Stay tuned.

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