Category Archives: site meta

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.

July 19, 2010 – 5:48 pm | By Ryan | Posted in lists, site meta | Comments Off

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 …

July 14, 2010 – 11:36 am | By Ryan | Posted in appreciation, site meta, wordpress | Comments (1)

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 …

December 30, 2009 – 12:34 pm | By Ryan | Posted in informational, site meta | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

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). …

June 14, 2009 – 11:29 pm | By Ryan | Posted in php, site meta, wordpress | Comments Off

Out to sea…

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

February 4, 2009 – 5:45 pm | By Ryan | Posted in general, informational, site meta | Tagged , , | Comments Off

Welcome Elitist Jerks

I have no idea what was posted that links here from Elit­ist Jerks, because it was in their pay-only forum, but I wel­come your traf­fic and wish one of you would clue me in as to what you were talking about.

January 30, 2009 – 8:06 pm | By Ryan | Posted in site meta | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Career Oppurtunities (the ones that never knock)

One day, thought not any time soon, and prob­a­bly not before they go big or the next big indus­try shift hap­pens, I want to work for a web host­ing com­pany like The Engine Yard, Media Tem­ple or Lin­ode; These are web host­ing com­pa­nies that get it. Dif­fer­ent from the "extremely ques­tion­able" web host I once worked for, the "old …

January 18, 2009 – 4:58 am | By Ryan | Posted in general, site meta | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off