Nikon Rumors recently ran my Nikon Z9 second impressions as a guest post on their site. That was very flattering. It was also a novel experience for me – generally nobody reads what I post here on my blog, and it’s as much for my own benefit as anything else (e.g. a form of “rubber … Read more
I woke up this morning to find that my website – this one – had gone down only a few minutes earlier. The host’s website, Gandi.net, was acting flaky and not letting me log in either, so I figured it was a widespread issue on their end. A few hours later, Gandi.net was working again, … Read more
It’s been a bit over four years since I moved this blog off of the old statically-built site, by iBlog 2, to WordPress. Apparently it’s time for an updated theme. Actually, Suffusion was pissing me off as per usual, and I accidentally applied a new theme when intending only to install it (apparently ‘Activating’ a … Read more
I really like the text rendering on my iPad 3. Yes, it’s ostensibly much the same as the iPhone 4 I’ve had for a while. But it’s not. The relatively huge screen makes a world of difference. So I’ve changed the font of this ‘ere website to something that looks nicer on the iPad 3. It … Read more
One good thing about working at Google has been that I’ve finally learnt Python. Properly. Which means I can whip up, in just a couple of minutes, a tested & documented script to, say, replace ~2,500 HTML files with redirects. So now anyone using an old link to any HTML page under http://homepage.mac.com/wadetregaskis will get … Read more
WordPress apparently has no understanding of time zones, at least in the sense that makes sense – it displays all times in the local time of the viewer (at least, I hope it does… the alternative is that it displays all times as PST, which would be highly suspect). So all my old, imported posts, … Read more
It appears there’s simply no way to directly convert from iBlog to WordPress. Awkward. iBlog ostensibly has some ability to export the blog, but the relevant menu items are permanently greyed out. Likewise WordPress ostensibly has many plugins for performing HTML import, but they really suck (and also just ignore categories, tags and other metadata, … Read more