August of 2015 was the first month I posted no blog entries since I began my blogging hobby in June of 2007. For almost a year, I’d been suffering a bit from burnout and had also begun to doubt that my more recent essays were adding much to what I’d already written over the previous … [Read more…]
There may be some glitches in links after an update of WordPress. The PHP variable used to id posts has changed and I have a bad feeling about the stability of some other parts of this software. I think I patched up the latest entries but I don’t know if there will be a ‘fix’ … [Read more…]
On the whole, it has been a smooth road to setting up a website, partly because I chose to use WordPress as a simple content management system as well as blogger software. The remaining problems to finalizing a simple website are not too bad. When I copy up some text from my local emacs to … [Read more…]
I decided to go through with it. I’m not going to spend a lot of time right now re-learning html and perl, let alone learning python, ruby, or php. My website will basically be a text-oriented set of writings, including some pages which will display samples of my unpublished books. So now I just want … [Read more…]
I kept at it and eventually found Jeffery Friedl’s plugin for WordPress that allows text to be inserted directed from a file — which can be edited by emacs, of course. Need a local directory for holding those files but it would be even better to have a local emacs. And Bluehost has a full … [Read more…]
Well, I’ve been burned by the crappy standards the computer industry has accepted because of Bill Gates’ desire to become wealthy even at the cost of destroying American minds and the American computer industry. I use Netgear wireless transmitters to connect to my sister’s broadband connection and Netgear, along with an open-source, group supported by … [Read more…]
Messed up WordPress and now I’m starting fresh. I was thinking about using WordPress as my site-manager but something went wrong.