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admin note
To those who left comments in the last week or so: thank you, and I really meant to write you all back this evening. But my site mail is on the fritz—probably just as well, as I'm leaving for WLC... [read more]
mothballs
SO THAT'S ALL for now. There is more that I wanted to write about, but I'm just flat out of time. As I type this, it's August 26, not December 20; but the latter date is about when I will... [read more]
shiny new RSS feeds
Over the weekend I finally brought this site's RSS feeds into the 21st century. For the main blog, both summary and full-post feeds are available; the buttons under "site information" up and to the right provide the links. Sideblog posts... [read more]
continued lameness alert
No, this blog is not on hiatus; it just looks that way. Spring semester is now over, and we're off for a short vacation to Minneapolis and then to catch a U2 show in the Windy City next week. Regular... [read more]
changes
My decision last week to sign away part of my freedom for six years (eight, if you count inactive reserve) does have certain consequences. For instance, whipping my late-thirty-something frame into shape is suddenly more important than rising in the... [read more]
blind
When I awoke this morning, my broadband connection was down. Many hours later, it is still MIA—thanks, Insight! The problem appears to be way upstream, with many InsightBB customers affected. Hopefully that means things will be back up soon. If... [read more]
upgrade
Wow. It's very late. Just finished upgrading this site to Movable Type 3.15. And everything seems to be working swimmingly, including odd and sundry hacks. Go me. The main motivation for doing this now was speed: site rebuilds have been... [read more]
referrer spam sucks
Not as debilitating as comment or trackback spam, but nonetheless chews through bandwidth like nobody's business. Tonight this site got hit pretty hard. Fortunately, Caveat Lector demonstrates how to use .htaccess to block commonly used strings in the spamming urls,... [read more]
2005 blogging resolutions
New Year’s resolutions? Didn’t make any personal ones, at least not formally. But one week into 2005 should not be too late to set goals for this website. So, in no particular order: [read more]
Ghost of a Flea
Over the past few days, I've been installing upgrades over at Nicholas Packwood's Ghost of a flea, which is one of the leading lights of the Canadian blogosphere. (And with traffic to match: last month about 40x what I received... [read more]
comments broken
Thanks to reader MrGrumpyDrawers, I have discovered that the security code images used for posting comments have just up and vanished. Rather embarrassing, really, as I've been promoting this approach to fighting comment spam. I think it's a server-side problem,... [read more]
a short breather
Real life is making demands, so unless there is an actual October surprise—or unless bloody-handed mole-man Yassir Arafat goes to his final, unlamented reward—I'll not be posting until late Sunday or sometime on Monday. But next Tuesday, from 6 pm... [read more]
introducing andúnië.net v2.0
In the nearly twelve full months since this blog went live, I've discovered that tinkering with site design is a job that never…quite…ends. But sometimes the changes are big enough to brag on. Tonight James and I finished incorporating the... [read more]
August recess
We're off to New England for a spell: first to Boston—provided that the city still stands after last week's political orgy—and then to New Hampshire, to see if the Granite State lives up to its name. Upon our return I... [read more]
complete and utter geekery
Suddenly as the sun plunged into cloud they heard the hideous cries of Orcs, and saw them issuing from the Forest and moving down the slopes, yelling their war-cries. In the dimmed light their number could only be guessed, but... [read more]
initial upgrade complete. sorta.
After some delays, tonight I did get my hands dirty with Movable Type 3.0. And the upgrade seemed to go swimmingly—durn tedious, but relatively straightforward. Except: archives are inaccessible. They do still exist. It's just that you can't see them.... [read more]
site upgrades
There will be much going on behind the scenes here in the next couple of several weeks. Some of the changes may show up before they are completely polished, so if things look a bit strange for a while please... [read more]
silent running
It appears that I will have little or no time for posting this week: less than four days until my thesis proposal defense. I'd hoped to finesse things otherwise. But so it goes. Priorities, and all that. Be back soon.... [read more]
life's little mysteries
I don't obsessively track andúnië.net's statistics; that would be kinda depressing. But I do check a couple of times a week. And for the month of February, the top referrer to this site (search engines excepted) is…this. The strange thing... [read more]
about andúnië
Just in case you have a burning desire to know how the name of this website is pronounced (as I'm sure all four of our readers do), some instruction may be found here, along with a newly expanded discussion of... [read more]
how to properly christen a weblog
I thought about knocking a bottle of Guinness against my monitor but reconsidered. It's been about eighteen months since I first decided to try my hand at blogging. In terms of trend life cycles, that's an eternity, but I wanted... [read more]
