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02008-06-15

wordpress can’t count: my 2000th blog posting

I was all exited about my 2000th post, because the dashboard is showing:

$wordpress can\'t count$

So I decided to tabulate my entries by number, and discovered that I really have 2261 (well, 2262 now) blog entries. This is the real story:

Post #	Title	Date
1	is this thing on, eh?	(2003/06/04)
2	Happy Birthday	(2003/06/04)
3	mmm	(2003/06/05)
4	A century later, worse economy	(2003/06/05)
5	Christian Anderson Smith, where were you in our hour of need?	(2003/06/06)
6	fishepiphany	(2003/06/07)
7	â€œWhat a Life!â€ lives!	(2003/06/08)
8	pinholes	(2003/06/09)
9	they donâ€™t make â€˜em like they used to	(2003/06/12)
10	whatâ€™s this ear?	(2003/06/19)
16	the wisdom of chairman ralph	(2003/07/08)
20	Phew â€¦	(2003/07/29)
30	Canada supporting copy-controlled CDs	(2003/10/09)
32	so long, emusic	(2003/11/05)
40	how the blog got its name	(2003/11/24)
50	do me a favour	(2003/12/01)
60	malicious deomnibusation of maternal relativeâ€™s maternal relative strictly forbidden	(2003/12/09)
64	DNX-1000 Hardware /dev/null Accelerator	(2003/12/10)
70	Enoch, the Money Mart ad guy	(2003/12/15)
80	Mozilla Mail Went Nuts	(2003/12/21)
90	A helpful error message	(2003/12/31)
100	very small, but not cheap	(2004/01/06)
128	Attack of the Dodgy Duracells	(2004/02/03)
200	first groundhog	(2004/04/03)
250	freecache doesnâ€™t	(2004/06/13)
256	Getting (Not Very) Political	(2004/06/23)
300	UofT Solar Car	(2004/08/13)
400	letâ€™s get confused	(2004/10/13)
500	Good Activism Guide, from an unexpected source	(2004/12/07)
512	and this makes news in Scotland: Krankie hurt in beanstalk tumble	(2004/12/15)
600	The Passing of The Grammarian	(2005/02/22)
700	get yer fives on!	(2005/05/05)
750	Lego, ergo sum	(2005/06/05)
800	StimpyFest: the time is now	(2005/07/14)
900	no cheers for VIA Rail	(2005/09/27)
1000	Meet Mr Random	(2005/12/26)
1024	my letter to etymotic	(2006/01/24)
1100	1656 days from PR application to Canadian Citizenship	(2006/03/25)
1200	View from the nacelle of a 2.3MW wind turbine	(2006/05/22)
1250	old taters	(2006/06/18)
1300	when chitin isnâ€™t enough	(2006/07/20)
1400	confused	(2006/10/03)
1500	alan_walsh-carter_arter_blues.mp3	(2006/12/21)
1600	all atwitter	(2007/03/06)
1700	messing with cars makes you bad at spelling	(2007/04/26)
1750	curious_orange-roncesvalles.jpg	(2007/06/01)
1800	take your â€¦	(2007/07/21)
1900	serene detachment	(2007/09/20)
2000	not very walkable here	(2007/12/13)
2048	recursive headline	(2008/01/22)
2100	glacial	(2008/02/25)
2200	the most hateful coining in the language	(2008/05/05)
2250	outlook_gone_all_big	(2008/06/02)
2261	wind turbine data – we are generating!	(2008/06/13)

The numbering seems to have gone sideways in the last 1000 entries; entry #1000 is, as they say, what it is.

02008-06-15

we’re generating

You’ve no idea how happy I am to see several of these little fellers on my SCADA system:

wind turbine data - we are generating!

That means we’re up and running. Go Lake Erie!

02008-06-13

scenes from midwest banjo camp

$Loren\'s Hicks\'s bike$

02008-06-13

I got an autoharp on eBay a couple of weeks back. It was cheap, but fairly beat up. 32 of the 36 1970s-vintage strings were intact, if very tarnished. I spent more on new strings and a tuning wrench at Elderly last weekend. After spending a few evenings cleaning (you don’t want to know what I found in it), replacing strings (fiddly) and tuning (slow), I can now make 1970s sounds. Fun!

(and yes, before you ask, it does appear to have two Bâ™7 keys.)

02008-06-12

Olivet frogs

I think I’m supposed to be blogging about more Midwest Banjo Camp related things – but J.R. Jenks is doing this fine. Here’s a recording of some of the tree frogs in Olivet: olivet_mi-frogs-20080606.

02008-06-07

yeah, us long neck banjo players are a bad lot …

$Still from NFB\'s Nobody Waved Goodbye$
Still from 1964 NFB docudrama Nobody Waved Goodbye, as mentioned in a nostalgia piece in Spacing.

02008-06-04

operating (nearly)

We were testing wind turbines yesterday.

Not the best picture, but it is a running Vestas V82.

02008-06-04

perhaps the most sugar-coated admission of peak North Sea oil

The North Sea has almost as much oil left as has already been extracted, a BBC Scotland investigation has been told.

â€” BBC News, Oil reserves ‘will last decades’.

02008-06-04

I don’t know what it did, but I wish it hadn’t done it

Outlook has now decided that I need all my e-mail text in huge. I have no idea why.

02008-06-02

rsync to an NSLU2

My only real complaint with my Linksys NSLU2 is that it doesn’t have a very accurate clock. Tools like rsync expect identical timestamps, or flag source and destination files as different. This causes most of your files to be rewritten, even though the source and destination are in fact the same.
This fixes it:

rsync --size-only -av src dest

02008-06-01