http://jbhannah.net As a last resort, in case you would otherwise have to. Wed, 27 Aug 2008 21:27:43 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en New theme. Woohoo. The semester has apparently started, seeing as how I'm writing this while working on a lab in physics. I'm taking 16 credit hours this semester, in four classes: Japanese 102 (5 credits) Physics 151 (4 credits) Calculus 3 (Math 272, 4 credits) Technology and Society (Sociology 334, 3 credits) I was originally registered ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/08/27/i-should-write-here-more-often-huh/ I've started using Flickr for online photo sharing and backup, partially influenced by the fact that I took almost 600 photos on vacation and don't want to put the stress of uploading gigabytes of images on my server. I did have to spring for Flickr Pro, which is an extra ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/08/14/flickr-and-furniture/ All things other than the weather considered it's good to be back in Tempe, on my own computer again with my anime collection and epic internet pipes and digital cable. But DANG it gets hot here. Seriously, holy frick. In any case, vacation was fun. Lots of driving on Monday (yes, we ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/08/07/forecast-for-tempe-hot-slightly-cooler-in-nearby-hades/ Forget translation; this restaurant sign in China didn't even make it that far, and shows why you really shouldn't rely on the internet for translating into languages you can't read: I don't post just plain links very much, but when I find one that reaches as far into the realm of ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/08/03/lost-in-computation/ My family is taking a vacation to the Los Angeles area next week; so for the time being I'm back in the Old Pueblo. The two things I remembered right away: how little traffic there is, but how much it doesn't seem like it because of how poorly managed it is; ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/07/25/vacation-days/ Yup. Part of it was my dissatisfaction with Drupal as a straight-up blogging platform (versus WordPress's specialization as one), and part of it is the vast improvements made by WordPress in the area of photo uploading and management. That part will still take some playing with to get figured out, ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/07/18/back-to-wordpress/ I was having weird problems with Firefox lagging every once in a while, so I decided to just build my own for Mac OS X Leopard on my Intel Core 2 Duo Mac Pro. Didn't turn out to be too difficult; Neil Lee at BeatnikPad already has Intel and G5 ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/07/13/building-firefox/ Like I mentioned previously, this site is now being served up by lighttpd; it took a while to get clean URLs working right, but what right now is making my server tick is a very carefully laid-out filesystem and set of bash scripts and lighty config files, wrapped around a ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/07/10/drupal-multisite-clean-urls-and-lighttpd/ Still not on any better of a schedule. Not really worth discussing. The site is now running on lighttpd, to cut back on the memory consumption compared to Apache. It took a while to get all the rewrite rules working right, but it seems to all be working now; use the ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/07/07/more-upgrades-more-sleep/ My web site is now (mostly, anyway) migrated to my new server package, which as previously mentioned is a NetworkRedux Silver Virtual Private Server, paid for yearly (yeesh). Additionally, all of my domain names are now with GoDaddy, and I'm hosting my own BIND and nameservers—meaning, no dealing with NetworkRedux ... http://jbhannah.net/2008/06/29/bind-drupal-and-sleep-patterns-or-lack-thereof/