The main purpose of the home setup is for testing our mediawiki setup. Our old sites are running old versions of Mediawiki on php5.6. Our custom extensions need to be updated to work with the latest MW and php7 in order to satisfy IT security, and on general principles. Documentation on MediaWiki.org has some tips […]
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Remodeling 2016 – Pier and beam
The next step was to do the pier and beam foundation for the new laundry room. This started by drilling holes and pouring concrete around rebar to make the piers that support the whole thing. This is supposed to be better for our expansive clay soil than just putting down a slab that would shift […]
Remodeling 2016 – Demolition
Early in May, Stearns started the demolition. We had cleared out all the junk in the Annex, leaving behind anything that could go out with the demolition debris. One day the backhoe showed up in the morning. By the evening, the Annex was gone You can see the steps from the kitchen down to the […]
Remodeling 2016 – Before
This it the first of several posts I meant to make months ago. We had been procrastinating doing some remodeling for several years and started to plan for it in earnest about a year ago. The pictures below are from May 2 and show a part of our house we called the Annex. It comes […]
Happy Hollidays
Love this tweet from Jon Eisen! Merry Christmas to all, and may you keep all your New Year’s resolutions. Happy Hollidays pic.twitter.com/dz13KRGQFV — Jonathan Eisen (@phylogenomics) December 25, 2015
College Football Week 6: Chaos
My teams went 0-3 in a series of frustrating losses, each of which was depressing in a different way. But these were just a small slice of a crazy weekend in sports. Miss State d A&M The question going into this game was whether the Arkansas game showed A&M’s grit and ability, or revealed problems. Meanwhile […]
College Football 2014 Week 2: is the B1G already eliminated?
My teams went 2-1, but with the Ags and the Badgers playing cupcakes. Didn’t see the Badgers, but checked the game thread at Bucky’s 5th quarter a few times. USC 13 Stanford 10 The Stanford loss to USC, at Stanford, was a depressing result for the weekend. Stanford won or tied the stats except for the two that […]
Yet more testing of JSmol2wp
[jsmol acc=:adenosine commands=’adenine=load :adenine|||adenosine=load :adenosine|||guanosine=load :guanosine|||cytidine=load :cytidine|||thymine=load :thymidine|||uridine=load :uridine’] This is a test of the isosurface capability using an xyz and jvxl file uploaded to WordPress media. Markup is: [[jsmol acc=’s_den.cub_’ type=’xyz’ caption=’Load local file’ isosurface=’s_den.cub_.jvxl’]] [jsmol acc=’s_den.cub_’ type=’xyz’ caption=’Load local file’ isosurface=’s_den.cub_.jvxl’]
Instacast
I’ve been frustrated by Apple’s Podcasts app on my iPhone, so I decided to try InstaCast on the recommendation of a friend on twitter. Initial impressions: The first thing I noticed was that when you launch it for the first time, it doesn’t ask if you want to import Podcast subscriptions from iTunes or the Podcasts […]
Whiteboard restoration
The whiteboard in my office is pretty bad in terms of being actually erasable. Trying this trick of using WD-40 to fill the pores. Seems to work ok. Don’t spray as much as I did; a little goes a long way.