Marisa & I have been riding a little bit, for a few months now. We try to go at least once a week, generally on weekends. Today we rode to Stanford University, and then around the campus. Marisa hadn’t really been there before. It was quite a nice, sunny day, perfect for riding. We happened… Read more
I’ve been trying to make use of iCloud in an iOS app over the last couple of weeks, and it’s been absolutely infuriating. There’s a large volume of documentation, but it’s not very good, and it’s incomplete. So let’s run down the laundry list: Entitlements Getting the entitlements to work is, in general, an incredible… Read more
One good thing about working at Google has been that I’ve finally learnt Python. Properly. Which means I can whip up, in just a couple of minutes, a tested & documented script to, say, replace ~2,500 HTML files with redirects. So now anyone using an old link to any HTML page under https://homepage.mac.com/wadetregaskis will get… Read more
It’s been many years since I noted down my 25 most played songs (in iTunes, anyway). The list has an immense amount of inertia behind it, so there’s now things in that I typically skip, but enough has changed since the last posting that I think it has meaning. Also, I really don’t trust my… Read more
WordPress apparently has no understanding of time zones, at least in the sense that makes sense – it displays all times in the local time of the viewer (at least, I hope it does… the alternative is that it displays all times as PST, which would be highly suspect). So all my old, imported posts,… Read more
For Valentine’s day Marisa gave me a couple of things, including chocolate zombie heads. :D
It appears there’s simply no way to directly convert from iBlog to WordPress. Awkward. iBlog ostensibly has some ability to export the blog, but the relevant menu items are permanently greyed out. Likewise WordPress ostensibly has many plugins for performing HTML import, but they really suck (and also just ignore categories, tags and other metadata,… Read more