Something with my past two Ubuntu upgrades broke all the internal links on my blog running on Wordpress.
It turns out the upgrade process changed the name of the target link on the .htaccess symbolic link file under my Wordpress install directory.
After the install this is what was linked:
.htaccess -> /etc/wordpress/htaccess
Notice the missing “.” in .htaccess.
To [...]

I just upgraded my slice from running Ubuntu Gutsy Gibbon to the newly released Ubuntu Hardy Heron.
The upgrade process:

Login machine
Execute the command “sudo do-release-upgrade”
Answer a few “Do you want to keep this older file or use this new file?” questions.
Done!

File this one under “That was easy.”

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addthis_title [...]

Back in college, I volunteered to help on “Women in Computing Day” to teach middle schoolers programming using Alice. I also helped teach an undergraduate teaching assistant position for Engineering Fundamentals, the class all engineering students were required to take. The course used Alice to introduce the students to programming concepts (loops, methods, [...]

The Open Geospatial Consortium just announced that KML has been adopted as an open standard. KML stands for Keyhole Markup Language, originally designed by Keyhole who was acquired by Google back in 2004.  Keyhole’s Earth Viewer product was reborn as what we know today as Google Earth.  I first came across KML when I was [...]

Google App Engine, which acts a Google-hosted application platform powered by Google technologies like BigTable and GFS.  You can read more about it here. I was lucky enough to get an invite to try it out.  Right now it only supports Python, but they say they plan on expanding this to other programming languages. I [...]