Category Archives: informational

How are people getting here now?

Once in a while I like to run down the Google Ana­lyt­ics results and see how peo­ple stum­bled over my site. Here's a peri­odic run down of some of the more pop­u­lar (or inter­est­ing) search queries that are land­ing traf­fic here lately.

Give Thanks and Praises

I'd just like to take a moment to thank Soma Design for their excel­lent Word­Press theme "The Eru­dite," which I am now using (albeit mar­gin­ally mod­i­fied). Addi­tional thanks to KING­desk for their equally excel­lent work on the wp-Typography plu­gin, with­out which jus­ti­fi­ca­tion of text would be neigh impos­si­ble to tol­er­ate. Also, thanks to Mered­ith Man­del for the

Who is Ryan McKern?

Let's take about two min­utes and have a small con­ver­sa­tion about the other Ryan McK­erns peo­ple might be look­ing for: The McKern fam­ily name isn't espe­cially pres­ti­gious, being best known (if it's known at all) as the sur­name of Uncle Leo (who was the best num­ber two that num­ber six ever con­fronted). But we're not con­cerned with

Word of The Day: Pile

Pile n. pahyl a col­lec­tion of objects laid on top of each other What hap­pens when some­thing is so utterly ter­ri­ble that it's heaped into a mound of fail­ure, resem­bling noth­ing so much as a col­lec­tion of ani­mal shit, which you've prob­a­bly just stepped in. Exam­ple: The ker­fuf­fle over this sub­do­main and it's asso­ci­ated impli­ca­tions for the doc­u­ment

Updating WordPress with libssh (and what I did when it was broken)

This article was orig­i­nally about auto­matic updates over SSH2 not work­ing for me when I upgraded to Word­Press 2.8. Word­Press 2.9 is out now, and this prob­lem turned out not to be their fault. After fil­ing a bug report and work­ing through it with the Word­Press team, a solu­tion was even­tu­ally found (see the final update to this post).

New Lens: Nikon 35mm f/2.0 AF-S

I doubt I am telling any­one who knows any­thing at all about cam­eras, phở­tog­ra­phy, or lenses any­thing new, but the Nikkor 35mm f/2.0 AF-D lens is an excel­lent lens. I played with a Sigma 30mm f/1.4 lens at the cam­era shop this week­end as well, and ulti­mately the slightly faster aut­o­fo­cus­ing and smaller body (lit­er­ally, half the

Out to sea…

Out of the coun­try for a few days, phở­tos to follow.