Category Archives: Blogging

Weather Alert

Posted on 2019-09-01 by jcs

Those of you in the U.S., especially the South Eastern U.S., are certainly aware of Hurricane Dorian, a very powerful Cat 5 hurricane bearing down on the Bahamas and the southern east coast. Happily, the forecast track moved to the … Continue reading →

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The Default Emacs Key Bindings

Posted on 2018-12-13 by jcs

Despite being a Vi/Vim user for over two decades when I switched to using Emacs, I learned the default key bindings and never looked back. It was a choice that worked well for me and I’ve never regretted it. That’s … Continue reading →

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SSL Update

Posted on 2018-12-12 by jcs

SSL appears to be working now. Sorry for all the confusion.

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Or Maybe Not

Posted on 2018-12-12 by jcs

Despite yesterday’s post, it appears that SSL is not, in fact, working for Irreal. I’ve been trying to reach my hosting provider’s technical support but without luck. Sorry for the delay. I’ll let you know when things get resolved. In … Continue reading →

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Irreal Is Secure

Posted on 2018-12-11 by jcs

A few of you have written to me complaining that Irreal’s SSL certificate had expired. That was news to me because I had never gotten an SSL certificate and as far as I knew, Irreal didn’t have one. It turned … Continue reading →

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Klipse

Posted on 2018-06-21 by jcs

I was looking through my file of blog ideas and found an interesting post about the Klipse plugin. The idea is that Klipse allows a blog post—or any Web page—to contain live code examples. Live code examples are just code … Continue reading →

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Update: One Down

Posted on 2018-04-15 by jcs

Those of you who read Irreal on mobile devices or who just have a heightened sense of aesthetics will be happy to know that I’ve developed a workaround for the formatting problems that I wrote about yesterday. The problem, I … Continue reading →

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Reminder and Update

Posted on 2018-04-14 by jcs

Back on March 2, I posted that org2blog was suddenly not working. I was certain that it was something my host provider was doing but that turned out to (probably) not be right. In order to push posts to WordPress, … Continue reading →

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Trouble Publishing

Posted on 2018-03-02 by jcs

I’m having trouble pushing my latest post to Irreal. I’m investigating the problem and will publish the post as soon as I can.

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Technical Problems with Today’s Post

Posted on 2017-10-28 by jcs

Today’s post featured a Kontra tweet but when I published it, the tweet didn’t display. The HTML markup for the tweet showed instead. I spent a little time troubleshooting but couldn’t get it to work. Thus, you’ll have to enjoy … Continue reading →

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