Tag Archives: Blogging

Booster Shots and Other Reasons for Not Doing Any Work

Posted on 2021-12-12 by jcs

Last Friday I got my COVID-19 booster shot. Here in Tampa, at least, that was easy. You can get them anywhere with an even tenuous link to the healthcare industry. As happened with my second shot, I woke up the … Continue reading →

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Weather Alert

Posted on 2021-07-06 by jcs

The wannabe hurricane known as tropical storm Elsa is due at the Irreal bunker later tonight. It’s currently on the line between tropical storm and hurricane but in either case the winds will likely be high enough to cause potential … Continue reading →

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Two Quickies

Posted on 2021-04-26 by jcs

Ten Years At This Location Irreal will be 12 years old in July but 10 years ago today I published my first post at irreal.org. Before that, Irreal was hosted at Blogger and I posted sporadically at best. Once the … Continue reading →

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Expired SSL Certificate

Posted on 2019-12-13 by jcs

I noticed this morning that Irreal’s SSL certificate expired last night. I’ve ordered a new one that should be active shortly (although it was a hassle last time so who knows). In the mean time you can still reach the … Continue reading →

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Fun and Games

Posted on 2019-07-20 by jcs

For those of you living in saner parts of the world who might not know, the Irreal International Headquarters are located in Tampa, Florida, which is recognized as the lightning capital of North America. Indeed, Tampa comes from an Indian … Continue reading →

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Ten Years

Posted on 2019-07-08 by jcs

Ten years ago today, the first ever Irreal post appeared on Blogger. It’s amusing to read what I thought the blog was going to be about. To be sure, I do sometimes write about Lisp and Scheme—although not so much … Continue reading →

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Happy Birthday Irreal

Posted on 2018-04-26 by jcs

Today is the 7th anniversary of Irreal as a WordPress blog1. Irreal started out as a way to make occasional posts about Scheme, Common Lisp, and a couple of other Lispy subjects. It’s evolved into a daily blog that considers … Continue reading →

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Maintenance Window

Posted on 2016-12-15 by jcs

Starting at 0900 EST this morning, Irreal’s hosting provider will be upgrading equipment so access may be intermittent. The provider expects that everything will be back to normal within 24 hours.

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Blogging Woes

Posted on 2016-09-21 by jcs

I finally got yesterday’s post up by generating the HTML from my Org source file and then pasting it into the WordPress editor. I’m still not sure what’s happening. Very occasionally I can push a post with org2blog but most … Continue reading →

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Problem Posting

Posted on 2016-09-20 by jcs

I’m have a problem posting today’s offering and I’ve run out of time to deal with it right now. I’ll try to get back to it later tonight. If you’re reading this, it means that it’s not a problem with … Continue reading →

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