http://isaac.wedin.org Isaac Wedin's weblog Thu, 17 Jul 2008 22:45:30 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I'd heard it's difficult to get WordPress working well on an IIS host but had never experienced it myself. In my case the install appeared to be working, but then looked like it'd failed on step 2. Browsing to the site, the text was all there, but clearly the style ... http://isaac.wedin.org/2008/07/17/wordpress-iis-suck/ Seems like Flash stuff in Liferea was working fine in Fedora 8, but in F9 a worthless popup appears, asking to download a plugin but doing nothing. I already had the evil Flash plugin installed, but Liferea didn't know about it. Maybe I did this same procedure a few months ... http://isaac.wedin.org/2008/06/12/getting-flash-working-in-liferea-on-fedora-9/ I ate a bunch of these at Jazz Fest. I'm not a huge fan of the crowds and dirt at Jazz Fest, so the crawfish make the thing tolerable. We ate some awesome food outside of Jazz Fest too, including some crawfish at Restaurant August that were loaded with cream ... http://isaac.wedin.org/2008/05/16/mmmmcrawfish/ I've been using a Super Takumar 50/1.4 adapted to my Rebel XT a lot lately. I think it's got a bit of the radioactive yellow thing, which I guess means it sat around a while out of the sun. It's supposed to go away after exposure to sunlight, but after ... http://isaac.wedin.org/2008/04/03/fuzzy-us-capitol/ This has been a pretty nice cherry blossom season in DC - a little windy but warm enough that they haven't fallen to the ground early like last year. These were down around the tidal basin, across from the Jefferson Memorial. There are some less crowded spots out around Hains ... http://isaac.wedin.org/2008/04/02/cherry-blossoms-2/ Seems like I've heard of a similar treatment before someplace. Sweet quote from a gastroenterologist: "It seems remarkable that some people are prepared to be infected with worms, but the fact that they are says a lot about how poor current treatments are." Link to the BBC News article http://isaac.wedin.org/2008/02/14/worms-cure-crohns-disease/ I got an ASUS Eee PC when my iBook finally died. I like the little thing a lot - the tiny form factor easily makes up for the limitations. Where the 12-inch iBook had an adequate-sized 1024x768 screen, the Eee PC's screen is 720x400, too narrow for a lot of web ... http://isaac.wedin.org/2008/02/13/eee-pc-impressions/ [photopress:fruitcake.jpg,full,center] Fruitcake has a reputation as an undesirable, comical holiday gift, more suitable as ammunition for a trebuchet than something to eat. To me, this is the ideal food to cook at home - however it turns out, it'll certainly turn out better than the commercial alternative. My current favorite fruitcake recipe ... http://isaac.wedin.org/2007/12/29/fruitcake/ Update: Well, I thought I had it working, but after several failed boots I gave up and installed Fedora 8 instead. It worked right out of the box, with the exception of the tap-click thing, right-click emulation, and the eject button. Not too bad. I've got an old 12 inch dual-USB ... http://isaac.wedin.org/2007/11/14/xubuntu-on-an-ibook/ So, after spending maybe-a-little-too-much time on eBay I've got 3 wide-angle M42 screw-mount lenses to choose from. I didn't intend to get two 28mm lenses, but I bid on a couple of lenses where the descriptions were vague and the photos were out of focus - lucky I didn't end ... http://isaac.wedin.org/2007/10/31/comparing-a-couple-of-m42-wide-angle-lenses/