People actually found me on twitter, so I added the gadget down below. I’m also playing around with a feed for BBC trips and rarities.
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Site Update
Thursday, January 24th, 2008
I decided to give up on the plain text stuff and am now using WordPress. I’ve managed to import all the old posts, although they need to be fixed up with correct dates and categories and stuff. Old links are temporarily broken, I need to figure out how to do some rewrite hacking to fix [...]
Update
Monday, August 6th, 2007
Been way too long since I’ve updated this thing. I keep meaning to, but between the BBA and other surveys and things I haven’t gotten around to it. Today I uploaded the NC Trip Report finally. I’ve got a bunch of updates on the Waltham-related stuff to get online sooner or later and plenty of [...]
Switching Hosts
Wednesday, April 4th, 2007
A bit of a spam issue finally pushed me to switch hosts. I’ve been meaning to do this for a while for code hosting purposes (not to mention backup), so hello textdrive. Thanks to PSF for the 3 years of hosting, recommended if you just need to dump files. As I transition, I’ve lost the [...]
Work Fun
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
Saw several quite interesting problems at work the last few days. One of the typing/business labs has a bunch of old Dells (L866r and L1000r). I got a support ticket that several machines were down, so I went up to investigate and found 5 that wouldn’t boot. I grabbed a cart and brought all five [...]
About The Name
Saturday, December 23rd, 2006
The name comes from a probably Redpoll X Siskin hybrid that was collected in Waltham in 1870 and has not been reported since. I seem to remember reading about it in Griscom’s Birds of Concord (I think, can’t find it at the library any more), but here’s an interesting old newsgroup post on it and [...]