Long story short: the blog was old and outdated, and now is new, shinier, and hopefully more secure. I can rest easy.

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I think I’ve set a new record so far for non-updating in the month of May. I feel like I’m either getting lazier with the blog or just getting busier in general and the two are definitely proving to be mutually exclusive. Having done the amateur blogging “thing” for the past 3 years now (mid [...]

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It’s been an interesting couple of days, by which I mean bad. After almost ten years of working as a technician including for both the University of Wisconsin and now here in Amman, I was (almost) beaten down by a virus. A particularly nasty one.

When I taught my class, I would always teach my students [...]

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I noticed this afternoon that the WordPress Askimet spam counter for Heiseheise.com had a major milestone rollover recently: we’ve just hit our 10,000th spam comment. The wonderful spammers that clog and pollute the internet in general and blogs/forums in particular never take a day off. Here are some stats for my two and a half [...]

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I just finished up my most recent web project, changing and redesigning Whitman Academy’s webpage to be easier to modify, with more features and “Web 2.0 compliant.” I don’t like using that buzzword because I feel as if it’s way overused, but if you had compared the old site to the new, you’d understand it [...]

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In order to get with the times and WordPress 2.7′s newest features, I’m in the process of modifying the “comment” feature on the blog. One of the major complaints with the older versions of ‘press was that each reader’s comment was essentially isolated from everyone else except for the blog’s owner. However, with a few [...]

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