I was going to call this post, “California Dreamin’” because what finally broke through my “not writing on Unspun™” barrier has to do with California’s pension “crisis,” which is really just one more aspect of California’s generalized budgetary crisis. But given what’s going on around the rest of the country, “Meltdown” seemed the more appropriate […]
Entries Tagged as 'Administrivia'
Meltdown & Revival
May 28th, 2010 · No Comments
Tags: Administrivia · Blogs & Blogging · California · Economy · Government
Why Are Upgrades So Frustrating?
August 15th, 2008 · 1 Comment
Anyone who has been poking around here the last couple of weeks — and according to the WordPress.com Stats module that came with this blog, that seems to be probably around a few hundred people — has noticed I’ve been busily upgrading the site software. For many years, Unspun™ relied upon MovableType™. Unfortunately, Unspun™ gets […]
Tags: Administrivia · Blogs & Blogging
Blog Rebuild: In Progress
November 22nd, 2005 · No Comments
Sorry that lately I seem to be posting mostly “Administrivia.” The blog rebuild is coming slowly because I don’t have much time these days. Law school mid-terms are coming up in a couple or three weeks here. I’ve been clerking on a double-murder case and sitting in (and sometimes assisting with research on) some gang […]
Tags: Administrivia
Unspun™ Back Online, Sort Of
November 16th, 2005 · 3 Comments
I know those of you who read Unspun™ regularly have noticed: We’ve been offline for about 2 weeks. This is because I made the mistake of moving my hosting services from my own servers to aplus.net. For whatever reason, aplus has insisted that my blog is generating around 2,800,000 SQL queries per day. Most of […]
Tags: Administrivia
No Blog Day
May 10th, 2005 · 2 Comments
Today is a “No Blog Day” at Unspun™. I have my Constitutional Law final examination tomorrow at 1:30 p.m. The exam is a three-hour tour of Equal Protection, Procedural and Substantive Due Process, along with a variety of First Amendment issues and who knows what else. If I blog today, when it comes time for […]
Tags: Administrivia
Dysutility
January 7th, 2005 · No Comments
The dysutility company is having trouble keeping the power going here. About 10 or 15 miles from here, my wife’s employer is having the same good time. Funny how every year our rates go up, while the quality of service goes down. In the last two weeks, I’ve had outages on three days. Today those […]
Tags: Administrivia
MovableType Upgrade
December 25th, 2004 · No Comments
For some time now, “comment spam” or what I call “blogspam” has been a significant administrative problem here at Unspun™. This is an “Administrivia” post, so if you don’t care much about how this blog operates, no need to read the rest of this post. Just, please, notify me if you notice any “odd behavior” […]
Tags: Administrivia
Comment Posting Problems
May 18th, 2004 · No Comments
Since the “upgrade” to the new version of MovableType last night, Comment posting isn’t behaving as it should. In theory, I have much more control over comment posting than I did in the past. I can require registration or I can allow comments to be posted by anyone only after I approve them or I […]
Tags: Administrivia
MovableType Upgrade: Was It Worth It?
May 17th, 2004 · No Comments
Tonight I upgraded Unspun™ to the latest commercial version of MovableType. So far, it’s provided a terrific user interface for administration — I can much more easily get to all the Comments posted, as well as Trackbacks. It does appear to have some pretty major drawbacks right now, though — severe enough that if I’d […]
Tags: Administrivia
Gone Fishin’…Sorta
September 19th, 2003 · 1 Comment
Well, I was unable to get to the 9th Circuit opinion regarding the recall as I’d planned. And I won’t be blogging this weekend, because I’m attending a Delta Theta Phi function in Los Angeles. However, I did add a new section to the blog tonight: Book Reviews. The book reviews appear on their own […]
Tags: Administrivia