BurningbirdRecovered from the Wayback Machine. Boing Boing re-published a photo found on Flickr of a hairless male chimp at the Mysore Zoo in India. Chances are this chimp suffered from the same hereditary disease that Cinder, the chimp who recently died at the St. Louis zoo, did: alopecia universalis. The condition is rare among chimps, so I’m not surprised that […]
I had asked about a new hosting company on Twitter. My main interest was cutting costs, but I’m also having problems with my current hosting company. Frankly, I think the problem is all of the Ruby-on-Rails applications running—database access almost comes to a standstill at times. Regardless, the company also turned on PHP safe mode, […]
One of my books finally returns home. (via David Wood)
I took my car into the shop last Monday, telling them to keep the car until they discovered the problem. Unlike the last time I took the car in, they could see the charging light, as well as hear the chattering relay (thanks, Dave). They had a hard time hunting down the problem, though. Three […]
The Frugal Algorithm has been ported from WordPress to Drupal, though I’m still adding odds and ends. I used the wordpress_import module to import the previously exported WordPress entries and comments. I then used my MissouriGreen theme pages, but the older WordPress stylesheet, and then mixed and matched accordingly.