Eengstro on October 10th, 2007

Checking my stats logs this morning, I noticed an interesting search engine term. Apparently, entering “cal poly band” 2007 pictures into either Google or Yahoo brings up my copy of the LA Times story Peacenik paper fawns over antiwar mom within the first few pages.
Odd.

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Eengstro on July 24th, 2007

I went to visit Moleskinerie today, and found a GoDaddy “parked” page in its place. WTF?
Update: Apparently a large power outage in San Francisco has knocked out a major data center. Other websites, including Craigslist and NetFlix, are also down.

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Eengstro on June 14th, 2007

Today, while looking at one of my old posts, I discovered that RoadFly’s boards — previously a BMW-oriented site, and the home of bimmer.org — have been completely fucked up by some sort of corporate sell-out. This is quite annoying, and naturally broke the link in my old post.
After some digging through the new [...]

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Eengstro on June 6th, 2007

I’ve been looking for a new theme for my blog recently. I want something simple, with few distracting graphics or bright colors. I also want a theme that adjusts itself to the width of the browser window. After playing around with several themes, I finally settled on the blog.txt theme. It bills itself as a [...]

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Eengstro on May 28th, 2007

I seem to receive a fair amount of referrals from this MySpace profile:
http://www.myspace.com/bobby133
I’ve never met this person. Who is that?

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Eengstro on April 16th, 2007

I just upgraded this site to Wordpress 2.1.3. (Read about my last major upgrade, to 2.0.1, here.) The visual editor appears much improved, so I’m going to play with that for a while.
I’ve also re-enabled comments for the time being. We’ll see what the spam situation looks like in a few days or weeks.

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Eengstro on May 18th, 2005

I’ve noticed that when I place an em-dash in a post, which is typically represented by two hyphens on the keyboard, WordPress substitutes a single hyphen.
Example:
     thought one–thought 2
results in:
     thought one–thought 2
But if I add spaces around the –, I get what I want:
     thought one — thought 2
results in:
     thought one — thought 2
That is a correct [...]

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Eengstro on February 27th, 2005

DreamHost has been having some issues with their MySQL servers during the last couple of days. This has been rather annoying, as it makes access to my blog impossible at times. Hopefully they’ll get this sorted out soon.

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