Thursday, 14 February 2008

2006_08_01_archive



Heat in Boston, WordPress migration, Sox game

It's pretty hot in Boston today: 100 degrees F (38 degrees C). There

are all sorts of government warnings to stay cool, in the shade, use

air conditioning, etc. I think it's kind of funny that they have to

warn people: you'd figure one's survival instincts would kick in

before you go for a 20K run, let's say, in this heat.

A couple of nights ago the weather was perfect for a Red Sox game.

Four of us went: Will, Ilana, Alli, and myself. We got amazing tickets

(probably the best we've ever had) through a corporate connection, and

the game itself was fantastic, culminating with Big Papi's walk-off

home run at the bottom of the 9th inning. It looks like fellow ASFer

Garrett was the same game!

The game also prompted a fascinating comparison column by The Sports

Guy, comparing Larry Bird and David Ortiz (Big Papi in the above

paragraph) in terms of clutch performances.

Finally, a word on WordPress migration. I wanted to try the automated

WordPress migration tool they offer on a non-trivial blog like this

one (custom external stylesheet, several hundred posts, etc -- not

huge but not trivial). It's an impressive-looking tool, tries to

automate everything, but it failed about halfway through the process

every time I tried it. And when it fails one has to manually recover


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