I have two things:
Also, logical volume management sounds interesting. I think I’ll check that out later…
A British accent seems to make everything a little more interesting. Here’s an hour long quantum physics documentary by the BBC.
I’ve tweaked the blog theme a bit. Nothing really that will affect you. I added alternate text to all the images, so now the blog validates as W3C compliant, so that’s good. I also fixed the path to an icon that was broken. The HTML pages I made in WordPad way back when are horribly mangled, unsurprisingly.
For some reason, when I pointed the validator at the test page of the theme, it said it was fine. However, when I looked in the code of the test page, it had the same omissions it was nagging me about, even though I had a fresh install of the latest version of the theme. Oh well, that’s over now. I also tried to maybe save W3C a bit of bandwidth like they asked, and hosted the standards definition file on my own server. I cron’d it to update every 3 months or so, as it would typically have a 90 day expiry time, using this line:
0 0 7 */3 0 rm /var/www/wp-content/themes/aqueous-lite/xhtml1-transitional.dtd wget -P /var/www/wp-content/themes/aqueous-lite/ http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd
The remove is to get rid of the previous version so wget can get a new version. If this was not done, a copy would be saved with a “.1” or “.2” ect on the end.
I can’t seem to change the <html xmlns=”http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml”> without it becoming inavalid, as it would seem that setting is fixed. Anyone with tips on how I can cache this or something, please let me know. I also removed an outdated version number from the footer. Thanks to those who pointed out I was apparently using an outdated version of WordPress!
I’d also like to draw your attention to an interesting demo. As far as I can tell, it’s a way to increase efficiency in motors by piping electromagnetic radiation that would otherwise be lost back into it. There are also claims that the laws of physics have been broken with this thing, so a healthy dose of skepticism wouldn’t hurt.
So, there’s snow, and lots of it. It took an hour and a half to get home, whereas it usually takes fifteen minutes.
It was:
It also deserves a mention that when I was brushing off the car for preparation to get it in the garage, (we didn’t want ice on it in the morning) I would frequently look back over my work and find it had already been snowed back over. Yes, it was snowing that hard, really.
This guy hasn’t had a fun last five years. Link.
I have simultaneously become sympathetic to how hard it is for a computer to translate and very amused at how very wrong it can be. I fed poder to Google Translate, wanting to know what it meant, having forgotten. (I ended up just googling the word and it was in the exerpt of the second result.) It said power. This isn’t right, although in its defense I gave it no context. It wasn’t even close, though. I then fed it Yo podo to see if conjugating it would give any clues. Apparently not, as it then said I podo. Not very helpful. I then added a period, making it Yo podo. Google proclaimed: I shortly. Amazing what modern technology can do! Online translators seem to be very good at producing amusing nonsensical gibberish.