Isotropic is …
... my personal blog.
Unless otherwise indicated, anything I write here is simply my personal, probably ill-formed, opinion and does not represent the views, beliefs, positions, or opinions of any other person or entity.
Tag Archives: meta
14 Oct 2008
Upgrade to WordPress 2.6.2
I’ve upgraded the site to WordPress 2.6.2. Please let me know if you notice any problems. Next upgrade: 2.6.3. Previous upgrade: 2.5.
05 Oct 2008
Rebooted
The hornlo.org server was rebooted about 18:45 PDT (20:45 CDT), after I reported it unreachable; I’m not sure how long it was out of service. Appears to be ok now.
11 Jul 2008
Planned outage July 11
Just in case things don’t go as planned … A heads up from my hosting provider (which I had intended to post earlier than this): “On July 11, 2008 starting at 10pm [Pacific Time] we will have a brief network outage to restructure our routing tables. We are planning two hours to deal with any [...]
28 Jun 2008
State of the Blog 0.5
My About page currently states “I plan on actually producing content in 2008, lol”. You may wonder why I bother. Steve Yegge’s You Should Write Blogs (even if nobody reads them) probably contributed to pushing me over the edge, so for convenience, you can blame him. I’m calling this a half-year review despite the fact [...]
29 May 2008
Site Problems III
Yeah, Isotropic was basically unreadable for a couple days again. I don’t recall ever seeing a load average over 1000 before. In theory, once the old cluster hardware and configuration is replaced, things will be much better. However, expect more downtime in the near future as my hosting provider gets the new hardware installed and [...]
21 May 2008
Site Problems II
Sorry for the very slow site the last day or two. This is unfortunately shared hosting and the load average has been getting high the last few days; it was over 130 earlier this morning. For now I’m assuming it’s a similar problem to the one in March — no details from provider yet Hopefully [...]
09 Apr 2008
Upgrade to WordPress 2.5
Well, here goes…. … that was easy. Untar’d on my local machine to check things out, disabled all my plugins, renamed the includes and admin directories on the live site, and rsync’d things over. Spent a while checking settings, reenabling plugins, etc. Next upgrade: 2.6.2.
30 Mar 2008
Site Problems
Unfortunately, my hosting provider, DreamHost, is having some issues. Thus, this site has been extremely slow, sometimes entirely down, for the last week. It’s unclear just when this will be resolved. Because this is only a personal blog, I’ll try to weather the storm — it’s too much hassle to change hosts right now. Sucks [...]
23 Jan 2008
Site Housekeeping
In spite of my tagline “where ever you go, there you are”, I’m in the process of moving bits and pieces of old stuff from my original site to here. Over the next few days you’ll see some clutter and broken links, and some really old dates on posts. It’s really just an excuse to [...]
21 Jan 2008
Breadcrumbs
As my friends know, I’m not a particularly social person. However, over time I’ve accumulated a few profiles here and there for various reasons: curiosity; those “you’ve gotta read my post” links (registration required) from friends; evaluating a site for work; and even, tragically, to view information about funeral arrangements for a long-ago friend. Also, [...]
