Mon, 19 Nov 2007

Picked up my guitar

I picked up my guitar again today and spent some time practising, after a break of 10 days or so. I like the sound of my Aparicio guitar very much. My fingertips don't hurt as much as they used to. The problem is (always) my left wrist, which just doesn't seem strong enough to take the strain of pressing and stretching. Anyhow - progress is slow but there is some.

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 20:18 in /life/music. -- Permalink

Alex King's tumblelog

Maybe worth an occasional look? Another "blog by the wayside", and a very elegantly styled one.

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 18:50 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Twitter Tools WP plugin "broken"

I've just found out that Alex King's "Twitter Tools" plugin for WordPress doesn't work properly in WP 2.3. A fix seems to be on the way. (I wonder if anything is seriously wrong, apart from a problem with assigning the proper category to Twitter digest posts.)

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 18:35 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Installed WordPress using Subversion

Subversion works fine, so I can run it (using ssh) and do something useful with it! I installed WordPress on my server using Subversion, which was very fast. I then copied all the files I had added or changed from my former blog into the directory (almost forgetting the "Twitter tools" plugin ...) - and everything works! So now I should be able to update WordPress in a very easy and fast way whenever a new version is available. I still have a few doubts - e.g., will I be able to run "svn update" so everything ends up in the correct place? But that's something to figure out later.

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 17:24 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Finished watching The West Wing

We watched the last episode of the last season last night. What now?

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 16:46 in /life. -- Permalink

Trying again to install Subversion on my server

This time, I'm trying to install an earlier version (1.3.2): from the forums of my hosting company I learned that nobody has managed to install its latest version yet. When I tried first, I didn't get anywhere before installing the dependencies as well - I wonder what will happen this time. It's probably not an issue with the older version.

Even if I succeed, I may not be able to actually run Subversion on the server and do anything useful with it. But I guess it's worth a try.

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 14:47 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Blosxom blog headlines in WP blog sidebar

Using the RSS module provided by the K2 theme, I added headlines of entries in this blog to my "entries" blog. I'm still not 100% sure if it's actually a good idea to make my "Traces" so easily accessible ...

In the same way, I added the RSS feed from my Twitter page.

Since I'm not so fond of posting photos, videos, chats ..., I decided that Gelato CMS and Tumblelog (which integrates into WordPress) are not for me.

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 14:20 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink

Die Grünen und die Kirche

Ein Artikel in der "Frankfurter Allgemeinen Sonntagszeitung": Durchs Klösterle in die Politik.

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 14:18 in /media. -- Permalink

Impressed by Amazon (2)

A minute ago, I received the complete 2-volume set of the "Intermediate Reader of Modern Chinese" (Princeton University Press 1992). Amazon had sent me only volume 1 by mistake; they corrected this without any fuss or delay.

I've already worked through several lessons in the 1st volume: good stuff! The only problem is, how do I transfer all the material in the 2 volumes to my brain?

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 12:36 in /life. -- Permalink

Keyboard shortcuts for Google Reader

I've started using keyboard shortcuts - Binny VA has drawn my attention to their existence. Nice!

These are the ones I use most often:

• j/k - item down/up
• m - mark as read/unread
• A - mark all as read
• ? - help

Posted on 19 Nov 2007 at 11:05 in /technology/internet. -- Permalink