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{ Monthly Archives } February 2005

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!