http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress Stuff worth writing about Fri, 01 Aug 2008 19:00:22 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en As you may have gathered from my previous post and the fact that I haven't fixed my sidebar, I've had enough of Wordpress. Instead, I've decided to move to another blogging program, called Habari. It's clean and easy to use and it gave me an excuse to redesign my blog ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/08/01/this-blog-has-moved/ I got an email today informing me that my comments were broken. So I found out that the K2 theme that I use to display this blog had been updated to a new version. Installing that fixed my comments problem, but managed to erase my sidebar. GRARGH. I'm really getting sick ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/07/22/enough-already/ I had always assumed that the often-quoted "50% of marriages end in divorce" statistic was one of those bunkum urban-legend stats, akin to "75% of communication is non-verbal" and "you only use 10% of your brain." But it turns out the Center for Disease Control actually keeps stats on this ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/07/21/marriage-stats/ Two amusing screenshots from earlier this week. Click 'em to make 'em bigger. Apparently Team Fortress 2 hasn't been updated since the Johnson administration. And apparently EA wants you to pay a little protection money. In case something should "happen" to your files. We wouldn't want there to be an "accident." http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/06/21/odd-error-and-the-ea-mafia/ Check out my new home page. It looks a lot better than the old placeholder did. It took about an hour to create. http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/06/13/new-home-page/ I learned a useful new word today from Karen Armstrong's recent TED Talk about religion. This word comes from the Quran, which dismisses religious opinion as: zanna — self-indulgent guesswork about matters that nobody can be certain of one way or the other but which makes people quarrelsome and stupidly sectarian I'm ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/05/03/zanna/ I got to wondering the other day: Why hasn't Vista Service Pack 1 showed up in my Automatic Updates yet? It's been out since March. So, after some investigating, I discovered that Vista SP1 has problems with some laptop hardware drivers, and the T4215 has several of these drivers. After ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/04/30/how-to-update-the-fujitsu-t4215-to-vista-service-pack-1/ After seeing part of the democratic debates on TV a couple of nights ago, I think that this is an entirely accurate portrayal of how ABC would handle the Lincoln-Douglas debates: LINCOLN: In my opinion, slavery will not cease, until a crisis shall have been reached and passed. "A house divided ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/04/19/this-sounds-about-right-the-lincoln-douglas-debates-as-conducted-by-abc/ So, we've all heard about how bacteria are starting to adapt to our antibiotics, right? (It's standard-issue survival of the fittest stuff--the bacteria that can best survive antibiotics survive and reproduce, leading to more antibiotic resistant bacteria.) Well, apparently, there are now bacteria that literally eat our antibiotics. The bacteria cited ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/04/06/nature-is-fascinating/ I'm in the process of updating to Wordpress version 2.5. The site may look weird for a few minutes. OK, I think we're good now. Fingers are crossed, but I think I've fixed the problems that cropped up in the theme. Let me know if anything looks obviously wrong. On the ... http://www.jdharper.com/wordpress/2008/04/02/upgrade-in-progress/