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BOINC

Yeah, I don’t know what it stands for either*. It’s the acronym for the Berkeley distributed computing project. Back in the late 90′s I participated in the SETI@Home project. You let the software use idle CPU cycles to search for artificial signals from deep space. I participated for a few years and ended up earning 2000 credits. I printed out my certificate and it’s laying about...

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Changes are afoot

I’m working on a new version of my website. It will not be WordPress, but I’ll probably keep this one as an archive. I have another site that I’ll do the same thing for as well. Just create an archive of them. More later.

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Multi-Site Conversion

The steps to convert a WordPress 3 site to a muti-site isn’t too difficult but there doesn’t seem to be a way to convert one back. You can if you use WP Database Backup. You export only the single site tables and then you import the backup into new WP single site setup. I’ll outline the details in a future post.

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3.0

I just upgraded to WordPress 3.0. It was pretty painless. Didn’t have to change my theme or anything. I did upgrade two of the plugins as well. Now to explore 3.0 and see what’s new.

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PyCon 2010

I’ll be attending PyCon 2010 in Atlanta in a couple of days. This will make my 5th trip to the conference. I started going because I inherited a Zope website. Zope isn’t the best introduction to Python but there you have it. I went because it was the closest I’d thing in price and time to getting more information about Zope. At the same time I got to learn more about Python and how cool...