Now at Sun

As of today (February 28, 2005), I work for Sun Microsystems. And no, it’s not what you think. It’s actually all Eve Maler’s fault. She and I have enjoyed working together on the XML Conference and the CSW XML Summer School for a couple of years, so when an opening came up in her group [...]

Upgrading MySQL on Debian

I’ve been waiting patiently for the updated WordPress to come out. Once it did, I decided I should really update MySQL as well, so that I could finally serve pages properly as UTF-8. I’d been running MySQL 3.23, and so I needed to upgrade to 4.0 to get real UTF-8 support. I also contemplated upgrading [...]

Northern Voice

The Northern Voice blogging conference was on Saturday. I was on the organizing committee and I was glad that all our efforts paid off. People seemed to really enjoy themselves, chaos didn’t even threaten to take over, and because some registered attendees didn’t show up, we even managed to fit everyone in without exceeding the [...]

Upgrading

As you’ve probably noticed by the different look to Anyway, I’ve upgraded to version 1.5 of WordPress. It will take a little while before I have everything implemented the way I want it; in the meantime please let me know if anything is broken!