By Aaron on Fri, 01 Jun 2007

A few days ago I noted that we’ve had some technical difficulties. Really two things have happened: first, a hard drive that had most of our photos on it has become uncooperative and I’ve been trying to recover everything off of it with little success (I’ve even tried using dd to make a complete image of it, but the process seems to eventually fall asleep at just under 60 GB of the 120 GB drive). In any case, this has upset our usual flow of photo editing and article writing.

Secondly, from what I understand out website doesn’t display correctly in Internet Explorer. I only have access to Windows Vista at the moment so I know it displays correctly with IE 7, but I wouldn’t be surprised if our site is not pretty when viewed with earlier versions of IE common on Windows XP, 98 and other versions. I’m hoping to find time to fix this and perhaps even do away with the fixed column style we have right now, but this has consistently been an item at the bottom of the to do list.

So if you have had problems reading our website with IE, I apologize. I also strongly recommend that you try out the web browser Mozilla Firefox. Not only does our website display well with Firefox, but you’ll also have features like tabbed browsing, pop-up blocking, better security and you’ll be making the world a nicer place¹. It’s very easy to install and use, so try it out.

¹ Really, you will. I’m not joking. Web developers around the world will love you for it. :-)

By Aaron on Thu, 10 May 2007

Some readers have requested a way to print out many of our articles to read offline. First, I want to mention that we do have an atom feed. For those not familiar, weblog feeds are specially formatted versions of articles that can easily be read in a feed reader or aggregator such as Google Reader or Bloglines. The interesting part about feeds is that you don’t have to remember to regularly check a website in order to get updates. In fact, there are services that will deliver feeds directly to your email.

For those not interested in such complexities, I’ve put together a PDF version of all our articles in chronological order up to this date. At the moment this is a one-off process but eventually I’d like to automate it so that anyone can get the latest full archive of Peregrinari. Until then, I hope this will suffice:

• Download Peregrinari Archive [PDF, 2.3 MB]

By J Aaron Farr on Tue, 21 Nov 2006

peregrinari (pereginor, peregrinatus)

• To peregrinate.
• To live or be in foreign lands.