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Upgrade to WordPress 2.8…

…seems to have been completed without a hitch. A separate source of happiness is that none of the plugins were broken in transition.

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Solar panels get cheaper

From Business Week: Solar Panels Get Cheaper With Congress considering both a cap on carbon dioxide emissions and renewable energy requirements for power companies, utilities are trying to figure out how they’ll produce clean energy. One increasingly viable option: solar … Continue reading

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include_HTML gets an update

I just updated include_HTML to version 0.3.  This is basically a bug-fix release; it turned out that the solution I worked out to resolve compatibility issues with WordPress 2.7 was causing problems when trying to access URLs containing special symbols.  … Continue reading

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An ethanol glut?

From Business Week: Lobbying for a Better Blend The ethanol industry is about to hit a wall—the “blend wall.” U.S. biofuel factories now have the capacity to make about 12 billion gallons of ethanol a year, and the U.S. market … Continue reading

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Introducing the Bookworm plugin

If you are familiar with Drupal, you are probably familiar with the concept of a “book”. A Drupal “book” is a collection of Web pages that are automatically tied together with proper hyperlinks, so that there is no need to … Continue reading

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The WordPress Projects page

It’s been a while since I wanted to give my modest WordPress-related efforts a place of their own.  Well, here it is: the WordPress Projects page.

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include_HTML gets a facelift

Include_HTML, the little WordPress plugin that I wrote a while ago, has been getting a small, but enthusiastic, following. Growth pains, as was to be expected, were soon to follow. It turns out that include_HTML is not working with WordPress … Continue reading

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include_HTML gets temperamental

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Juan Enriquez speaks at TED

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Excel’s faulty statistics: a bibliography

McCullough, B.D. (2002). Proceedings of the 2001 Joint Statistical Meeting [CD-ROM]: Does Microsoft fix errors in Excel? Alexandria, VA: American Statistical Association. McCullough, B.D. (1999). Assessing the reliability of statistical software: Part II. The American Statistician, 53(2), 149-159. McCullough, B.D. … Continue reading

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