The World of StuffSemi-geeky musings, links, and observations by an all-geeky teenager.Once more, with chip clips- August 15, 2008 It's now less than a week until I go back to school for my second year of college. At the beginning of the summer &8212; it seems so long ago now &8212; I unpacked all of the boxes that pretty much filled my room. Now I have to fill them up again. I haven't really, ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/08/14/once-more-with-chip-clips/ Good migrations- August 12, 2008 More metablogging: in my last post, I mentioned that "for reasons that are outside the scope of this entry, my posts from 2003 and 2004 have never been loaded into WordPress." It's a topic I want to go into a little more, so it's the scope of this entry. Before I moved to WordPress on January ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/08/12/good-migrations/ Upgrade- August 10, 2008 If portions of this site were unaccessible with strange error messages for about 45 minutes yesterday, it's because I was upgrading WordPress, the blogging platform that this blog runs on. It's something I don't do very often due to the sheer complexity and (for some of you who tried to read the blog yesterday) inconvenience ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/08/10/upgrade/ The SVG problem- August 8, 2008 I've been going out with my friends so much lately that any interesting things I might have had to say are now so commonplace that I can express them in pithy statements: Played baseball. Went to Outback Steakhouse. Went bowling. That was yesterday. Tonight, though, we hope to go to Miami for wild times. It'll ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/08/08/the-svg-problem/ The archives- August 6, 2008 I'm pleased to announce that the Great E-mail Scare of '08 has been resolved. My e-mail client is again able to download e-mail from the server. It must have been a server issue in the first place. While the scare was ongoing, I had to check my mail on the web, which is something I rarely ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/08/05/the-archives/ E-mail frustration- August 4, 2008 This is a tale of two e-mail accounts. I have one for personal use and one (from my university) for academic use. I use their corresponding POP accounts with Mozilla Thunderbird 2.0.0.16 on Ubuntu. The server settings are identical. Thunderbird is set to download new messages whenever there are any new ones. But starting a ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/08/03/e-mail-frustration/ We're number one!- August 2, 2008 May, June, and July have come and gone. Now it's August. But I'd never know it if I hadn't been looking at calendars and things. My friends and I have been carrying on as usual. Yesterday, we played some baseball until rain forced us off the field. We went to Nick's house and watched Starship ...http://www.theworldofstuff.com/archives/2008/08/01/were-number-one/ |