Global Spin

I (and Global Spin) have changed a bit over the last few months. Nothing you’d notice much, but I’ve set aside a few projects and picked up a few others. Specifically, I’m starting the long road toward becoming a licensed scientician. Long story short: Global Spin is shifting towards science blogging. For the remainder of [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog on March 23rd, 2011 | Comments Off

While doing regular WordPress maintenance today, I finally bit the bullet and changed the post permalinks to something a bit more human-friendly. For example, the old and new URLs for a recent post are: http://globalspin.com/2009/05/22/1531/ http://globalspin.com/2009/05/livable-streets/ A bit nicer, right? Here’s the tricky part: the old URL still works, redirecting automatically so no one need [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Technology on August 5th, 2009 | Comments Off

This is a test of the Scrippet plugin for WordPress, which would help me render bits of scripts and screenplays and such. I’ll be tweaking this until it looks OK. INT. RESEARCH OFFICE – DAY SMITH stands next to BILLY, who is seated at his desk. Billy hands him a fat folder. BILLY I don’t [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, ScriptFrenzy, Technology, Writing on June 12th, 2009 | 1 Comment »

UPDATE: CSS Naked Day is over, so the site is back to its stylish self. If you missed it, the home page looked something like this: Are things lookin’ a little 1994 in here? That’s because it’s CSS Naked Day 2009, a day when people around the world strip their sites bare so you can [...]

Posted by Chris in Blog, Technology on April 9th, 2009 | Comments Off

[Graph of my feed-reading habits over the last month, courtesy Google Reader.] OK, maybe less “catching up” and more “declaring newsfeed bankruptcy.” I’ve been a wee bit busy for the past month or two (or three… shush!), and it’s not likely to let up for another month at least. Sorry about the relative radio silence. [...]

Posted by Chris in Academia, Blog, News on December 27th, 2008 | 6 Comments »