Archive: May 2004
Origami-folding Robot
Dexterous robot conquers art of origami:
Modelling the creation of an origami model is also mathematically and computationally complex.
The designer’s website
Confused
This site is on a list of Bookmarks for standards testing on one of Joe Clark’s sites (look for “Backgrounds”). I can’t figure out if it’s supposed to be a good or bad example, so that makes me kind of nervous.
(Full Post)MT redirects
Arghh! Can’t figure out how to do redirects on the MT entries.
The solutions I’ve found all seem to assume that you’ve archived in a archive/YEAR/MONTH/DAY directory structure.
Or that post_ids in MT equal the post_ids in WordPress.
WordPress Quicktags and Opera
Quicktags don’t work quite right in Opera. Tags will only be inserted at the end of the current text.
(Full Post)Installing WordPress
Created a database for WordPress at Dreamhost. Wombat Nation’s cheat sheet came in handy, if only to confirm that I hadn’t screwed it up.
I exported my MT blog to a text file, then ran wp-admin/import-mt.php to import the entries. The first clue that something was wrong was that import-mp thought there were a dozen authors [...]
The Value of Failure
Dorothea offers some real food for thought in On Failure and Its Contentments. I’m not sure I have anything to add except that I know some of those never-failing people, and this gives me some new insight into them.
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