Hemingway is a gorgeous Wordpress theme, but it doesn’t like PHP 5.1.2. If you’ve upgraded to PHP 5.1.2 and your Hemingway theme is now greeting you with a blank page, I’ve got a fix for you. Download this updated functions.php zip file. Installation instructions:
Download the fix.
Unzip it and replace your Hemingway functions.php with the one [...]
While browsing through my iPhoto database I found these beautiful shots from the Japanese Tea Garden in Golden Gate park. Thought I’d upload a few to my Flickr feed (visit Flickr to see the whole set).
Continue Reading...We recently visited Mumbai and stayed in one of the hopelessly Americanized resorts there (you know the type, tailored for corporate visitors for the most part). It was beautiful, we were waited on hand-and-foot, and I felt completely out of touch with India.
It was a wonderful visit. I’ll post a bit [...]
Continue Reading...Two days in and it’s true, spam is dead. In the old Moveable Type days I just ended up turning off comments and trackbacks. The new Wordpress system doesn’t have this problem — thanks in large part to Akismet and Bad Behavior. The former comes with Wordpress and the latter I downloaded and installed in [...]
Continue Reading...Act without doing;
work without effort.
Think of the small as large
and the few as many.
Confront the difficult
while it is still easy;
accomplish the great task
by a series of small acts.
The Master never reaches for the great;
thus she achieves greatness.
When she runs into a difficulty,
she stops and gives herself to it.
She doesn’t cling to her own comfort;
thus problems [...]
Wow. It’s done, and it really wasn’t that painful after all. Wordpress is now running my blog.
After having using Moveable Type for about a year, I’m happy to see it go. There were so many things I wanted to do with the site for ages, but didn’t want to struggle with Moveable Type. I vaguely [...]
Well, I’ve reorganized this blog a bit in an effort to start… well, using it. Chiefly, there are more categories, nooks and crannies for me to start filling up with assorted oddments of my life.
In so doing I’ve come to realize that I spend way too much time working, much too little time traveling, and [...]
I probably shouldn’t be trying to work, write or do anything except sleep at 2:51 in the morning.
Continue Reading...I’ve been putting up with the commercial version of PGP for OS/X for some time now — chiefly so that I would have a reliable, military-grade encryption of virtual disks. PGP looks great at first blush and, usually, works great too. Unfortunately, it’s commercial, getting more expensive and lately it’s been plagued by a number [...]
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This is me. Martial artist, zen student, programmer, writer and author, technologist, father of two, photographer and a resident of Los Angeles (well, the outskirts of it).
I also publish Rational Scrum and am President & CEO of Hyrax International LLC, delivering comprehensive process improvements to its clientele. Specialities include audit and assessment of program areas such as project management, quality assurance, risk management and customer satisfaction as well as delivering focused initiatives to improve customer efficiency.
