I installed BAStats, a WordPress plugin for statistics. The old BBClone does not integrate nicely with WordPress apparently.
We’ll see how this one goes.
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Graduation
Congratulations to Carlos, Yossy and Daniel who graduated from UT this weekend. A bunch of people showed up from out of town. I have posted some pictures here.
“Execute order sixty-six”
Migrating from MovableType to WordPress
Well, I just imported every entry from my MovableType blog.
Categories preserved, all posts, all comments, even images look ok.
I screwed something up with the character encoding, so accents (i.e. México) look funny. I may or may not fix that, since most of the blog is in English anyway.
I still have to fix the template, to show the del.icio.us links, my own external links (time to clean some of up) and some other minor things such as the randomly-selected blog subtitle (did you ever even notice that?).
Why ditch Movable Type?
a) It’s not GPL. So I can use my version all I want but they made their license more restrictive so I don’t want to upgrade.
b) It’s Perl. As a work buddy of mine (McKay Bradford) eloquently put it, “Perl is a write-only language”.
c) I like PHP. WordPress is PHP, is GPL’d, and is prettier to administer too.
d) Moi made a cool plugin for WordPress. I’m looking forward to use that.
e) There are no, or very little, MovableType templates out there. I’m no web designer so I need all the help I can get.
I’ve also learned that there are quite a few drawbacks to the migration:
a) Lots of work to get it all up and running again. Hey at least all the images are showing up ok.
b) All the permanent links to entries and archives changed. There are many clever ways to get them working again, but… it seems like too much trouble. Not many link to my website, at least to the internal pages, other than the 1984 video and the M&Ms entries. To them, I apologize.
Other than that, things are going smoothly.
Out for lunch
Migrating servers AND blogging system at the same time. I like to live dangerously.Be back soon…. hopefully.
Easy Rider
Brian Anderson, Product Marketing Dude (I believe that’s his official title) for the Signal Generators group at NI is leaving the company, dropping “Product Marketing” from his title to become simple Dude and going on a 10,000 mile motorcycle trip around the US and Canada. After that he’s going back to school.
In order to let others know he’s still alive, he will be updating his blog on a regular basis (or so he says). Link added to sidebar.
Good luck and have a great trip Brian!
PS: I think “The Motorcycle Diaries” would have been a better title for his blog.
Machacado
- 1 can of chiles serranos
- 1 onion
- 1 tomato
- 30 tortillas
- salsa
- 1/2 Gallon of orange juice
- 8 large eggs
$18
- 400 grams of dried meat
$80 (mexican pesos)
- Machacado con huevo for breakfast the morning after a big party
Priceless
Tonight: Mr. Kirsch’s Very Intimate Birthday Bash
From: Marcos Kirsch
Location: The Bat-Cave 12370 Alameda Trace Circle 133,Austin,TX View Map
When: Friday, May 6, 9:30pm
Phone: 512 XXX-XXXX
[UPDATE 5/8/2005] Photos have been uploaded.
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My childhood will finally have closure
HebPod
As all of you are perfectly aware (I’m sure), the iPod cannot display hebrew. This makes finding that one Shlomo Artzi track specially difficult.
This is very annoying because it forces you to translate (either literally or phonetically) the track names to the English alphabet.
Well, Ido Mendelson has come up with a way to get the iPod display hebrew. But apparently Apple Israel (Yeda) has decided it voids your warranty (what???).
Anyway, there’s a petition in case you care.
I don’t know yet if I’ll try it… I’m thinking about it though but it’s not clear what it actually does… pressumably it simply replaces the font file in the iPod?