Monthly Archives: July 2006
WordPress 2.0.4
July 28, 2006 – 7:59 pm
The WordPress developers have just released WordPress version 2.0.4, a bug-fix and security patch release. The security flaw it fixes is so easily exploitable that if you’re a WordPress user you need to run not walk to the WP download site and upgrade today.
First Smile for Daddy
July 24, 2006 – 8:39 pm
Although he’s smiled for his mom this past week, my son–almost seven weeks old–didn’t smile for me until today. It’s understandable; so far I’ve mostly been the bleary-eyed guy torturing him (also known as “changing his diaper”) at 3 or 4 in the morning.
Upgrade
July 21, 2006 – 11:13 pm
Yesterday I upgraded my main computer from Kubuntu 5.10 (Breezy Badger) to 6.06 (Dapper). It’s probably one of the most painless upgrades of any that I’ve done: I few lines changed and typed, and apt-get does it all.
Powers of Ten
July 19, 2006 – 9:24 pm
This short film is a lot of fun, or at least you might think so if you like space, science, physics, and math, or you’re bit nostalgic about those films they showed you in grade school science class. By the way, I instantly recognized the narrator as former MIT professor Philip Morrison, who hosted a [...]
Museum of Fine Arts
July 17, 2006 – 11:53 pm
Today we visited the Museum of Fine Arts. I think my favorite part of such museums are the galleries with ancient art. It seems like there’s always a lion from the side of Nebuchadnezzar’s palace; an Assyrian bas relief of a warrior with a massive, braided beard; and Grecian urns. What I hadn’t seen in [...]
Visit to Maine
July 15, 2006 – 11:56 pm
Today we took a day trip with my mother to Maine, mainly to see the house of author Sarah Orne Jewett, who was the subject of my mother’s masters thesis. Jewett had an odd fascination with her initials; she would carve them on random items, including the window pane of her room, which you can [...]