In the end, it was easy–even easier than pressing the “easy” button at Staples–to get my new self-hosted Wordpress setup going. Almost as soon as I got started, however, I realized that I was not going to find myself being happy anytime soon with most of the Wordpress themes out there. I don’t profess to [...]
Categories: blogging, rocks, wordpress
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- December 20, 2009 – 8:34 pm
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Well, it was a tough decision. As much as I like Google Sites for private team collaboration, the same cannot be said about using it for my personal web presence. As of today, I am making my blog (even with its remaining imperfections) the new home for “all things George”.
So effective immediately, http://gkt.cs.luc.edu will redirect [...]
Categories: Uncategorized, blogging
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- December 17, 2009 – 2:45 pm
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Well, it is definitely wreaks of desperation: Comcast has recently decided to hijack DNS requests, especially when unsuspecting end users are “helped” when they type information into the URL field of their favorite web browser. Here is a picture of my typo “ig” being fed into Yahoo! Search without my consent:
So first, let me start [...]
Categories: networking
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- December 9, 2009 – 10:56 am
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Well, it’s official. Welcome to my new blog. After giving a major blogging solution a try for awhile, I began to find the overall experience pretty substandard. The inability to customize templates easy and have even a semblance of proper navigation (for key pages) began to take its toll.
In the end, I want something [...]
Categories: Uncategorized, social networking
Tagged: blogging, hosting
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- November 29, 2009 – 8:32 pm
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Alright, this posting isn’t going to be long. I’ve been running myself ragged lately.
So Ubuntu 9.10 (hereafter Karmic Koala) was released in late October. I was anxiously awaiting it for my Acer Aspire D250 netbook. I also wanted it because a number of packages were out of dates, even in backports, and I tend to [...]
Categories: fun, linux, netbooks
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- November 8, 2009 – 9:20 pm
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As I reported in my earlier posting, I found a workaround for using MacPorts on a case-insensitive filesystem. After numerous attempts to figure out how to get an image to auto-mount cleanly, I decided enough is enough. I tried everything, including AppleScript and Automator. Great stuff, but the same scripts that worked when I would [...]
Categories: development, foss, osx
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- November 2, 2009 – 11:06 am
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I wasn’t among the naysayers. Honest. Yet I won’t say that I offered any kind of vocal support, because I definitely had more than my share of concerns, especially as a parent trying to raise two children in this beautiful city.
But it’s now official. Chicago won’t get its Olympics. Neither will Illinois. Neither will the [...]
Categories: chicago, olympics, whatever
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- October 2, 2009 – 6:49 pm
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I was one of the early adopters of the Asus EEE PC–one of the original Netbooks. This model, the 901, features two internal drives. It’s a bit of a weird setup: one measly 4GB drive, and one 16GB drive. Both are solid state (obviously).
Does anyone here remember their first (external) hard drives? Most were a [...]
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- September 26, 2009 – 9:16 pm
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I had been experiencing a LOT of trouble with MacPorts on OS X after upgrading to Snow Leopard. As it turns out, I apparently was bitten by the perennial case-insensitive filesystem, which of course is the default option when one installs OS X (or has it installed for them via Apple).
So I followed the instructions [...]
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- September 21, 2009 – 8:14 am
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"Computational Thinking" represents "a universally applicable attitude and skill set everyone, not just computer scientists, would be eager to learn and use as described by Jeanette Wing (in CACM, Viewpoint, Vol. 49, No. 3). Like many computer scientists, while reading her viewpoint, I felt like she was saying what many (ok, all) of us are [...]
Categories: acm, computational science, computing, curriculum, education
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- September 15, 2009 – 5:15 pm
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