I just returned from three days in Puerto Rico for a work conference. Beautiful place with fantastic vistas on the north coast. I imagine that the blue of their part of the Caribbean is as beautiful as the blue that surrounds our sad island to the west of them. I would also like to praise an [...]

Enjoying another perfectly grilled ribeye. I am good.

Google, is an incredibly shortsighted and rather stupid decision, has decided to shutter Google Reader on July 1 of this year. Google is a leviathan in web services and I have to use a few of their services out of sheer convenience. Reader was one of them. (I hate their mail program.) I track my [...]

I'm grilling a T-bone and two ribeyes while enjoying the holy fluid of Ireland. How about you?

As you may recall, BabaluBlog converted to WordPress from the Movable Type blogging platform almost exactly four years ago (February 16, 2009). We've been very happy with the change despite some glitches and gremlins here and there. As a result of that conversion all posts prior to that date were duplicated on both platforms, including old [...]

To our wonderful and loyal Babalu readers, we'd like to wish all of you a Happy New Year.

As some of you have noticed, I had added a plugin to our WordPress installation that allowed you to edit your comments after posting. Unfortunately, it appears that that plugin has gone from "free" to "subscribe" and I've had to disable it. I have a strong suspicion that it was the cause of the commenting [...]

Enjoying the holy fluid of Scotland.

Well, it seems everything has gone well with our upgrade. We are now using the latest and greatest version of WordPress. I'd like all of you be testers now that the site is back online. If you notice any strange web behavior, or pages not resolving, or pages not looking right, or anything that you [...]

Constant readers and Twitter fans may have noticed that since last Wednesday, October 10th, around 2 PM our posts have not been automatically fed into our Twitter feed. We were using a WordPress plugin called Twitter Tools that stopped working. Just like that. We deactivated this plugin and are now automatically feeding Twitter using our [...]