Yesterday this server lost it’s network connection and could not get an IP address from MIT. It had been working fine with no strange messages in the system log files. I suspected a problem with the Ethernet jack in my room or the switch in the building, but after a bunch of troubleshooting I determined that the Ethernet card was no longer working. Along with most of the rest of this computer, it has now been replaced and the computer is back online.

After several years of a partially functional version of a simple blog program that I wrote for a CS databases class but never completely finished, I’ve decided to increase my use of technology by installing WordPress on my webserver so I can do more serious blogging, and you can add comments. I think I’ve written a WordPress theme so that it integrates flawlessly with my website, but I’m sure I’ll be ironing out kinks for a little while. Let me know how you think things look.

Unfortunately at some point I have to deal with the html blog that I have been generating since 2002. I doubt I can import it directly to WordPress because it’s in a format I developed for my own use. I really don’t want to re-enter every entry manually, but unfortunately that might be my only option.