Also, I finally got archives by date up again, using the Collapsed Archives Wordpress plugin. Unfortunately it is not as elegant as the two versions of the Live Archives plugin, but it will have to do for now because neither of them work with the most recent version of word press.
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After a bit of a bumpy ride, crumb.cc and architectureforhumans have moved to Donald’s server. Woo woo!
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I figured out how to use ssh from the terminal to remotely connect to the Sublab in order to turn in my CS4 homework. At first I was using PuTTY, because the instructions on the CS department are geared towards Windows users and I just followed them. Unfortunately I wasn’t been able to get X11 forwarding to work. Using PuTTY, I couldn’t paste into the terminal properly either. In desperation (as in I desperately didn’t want to leave my room early and turn in my homework at the Sunlab before class) emailed my homework to my CS email account, futzed around with pine until I figured out how to save attachments, and moved to the file into the appropriate folder.
Now at least I can use gnome-terminal and copy and paste to my heart’s content, but X11 forwarding still doesn’t work. I suspect something to do with Compiz and XGL, but other than that I have no idea. I’m pretty much in over my head when it comes to graphics and network stuff.
On a slightly related note, there is a boy who uses Ubuntu on his laptop in Epistemology. He has a 17″ screen and constantly moves around windows, zooms out from his desktop and shows off various other 3D effects during class. He also sits in a chatroom the whole time. It is mildly obnoxious and, feeling defensive of my Ubuntu-geek territory, I wish he used Vista.
Two interesting articles in the New York Times yesterday:
The Science of Online Dating and Compatibility Testing:
Its algorithm was developed a decade ago by Galen Buckwalter, a psychologist who had previously been a research professor at the University of Southern California. Drawing on previous evidence that personality similarities predict happiness in a relationship, he administered hundreds of personality questions to 5,000 married couples and correlated the answers with the couples’ marital happiness, as measured by an existing instrument called the dyadic adjustment scale.…
“We’re not looking for clones, but our models emphasize similarities in personality and in values,” Dr. Buckwalter said. “It’s fairly common that differences can initially be appealing, but they’re not so cute after two years. If you have someone who’s Type A and real hard charging, put them with someone else like that. It’s just much easier for people to relate if they don’t have to negotiate all these differences.”
and
Illegal Globally, Bail for Profit Remains in U.S., something I never knew anything about. (In fact I realized yesterday that I know embarrassingly little about bail in general — for some reason it never sunk in that you get your bail money back when you show up for court.) Anyway, people who can’t afford bail turn to bail bondsmen:
Other countries almost universally reject and condemn Mr. Spath’s trade, in which defendants who are presumed innocent but cannot make bail on their own pay an outsider a nonrefundable fee for their freedom. “It’s a very American invention,” John Goldkamp, a professor of criminal justice at Temple University, said of the commercial bail bond system. “It’s really the only place in the criminal justice system where a liberty decision is governed by a profit-making businessman who will or will not take your business.”
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Whooooooa, C-SPAN.org has a new layout!
It’s kind of ugly but easier to navigate and use than the old one. Not sure whose idea it was to use red, white, blue and orange color scheme.
Hey, I finally got off my butt and updated this site a bit!
Toasty photos is now functioning again, for those who don’t like Flickr and the lazy. I’m using the latest version of FAlbum.
The archives are also live once again, thanks to Super Archives and Category Cloud (which replaced the old Weighted Categories plugin that doesn’t work with the latest Wordpress).
Phew! Perhaps this will encourage me to post more often.
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