Category Archives: Administrivia

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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Sorry for the Bad Formatting

Posted on 2018-09-14 by jcs

I just noticed that Wednesday’s post on the Emacs/ImageMagick interface was formatted with embedded newlines. That means a certain amount of pain for those of you trying to read the post on your phones or other small-screened mobile devices. Sorry. … Continue reading →

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The Irreal Privacy Policy

Posted on 2018-05-26 by jcs

As far as I can tell, the GDPR does not apply to Irreal. Nevertheless, Irreal is trivially in compliance because we don’t collect or store any information about our readers. Even if we did collect such information, we would never … Continue reading →

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Update 2

Posted on 2018-03-03 by jcs

Still no word back from the hosting provider. They’re probably trying to have a life so I don’t expect to hear from them until Monday. In the meantime, I’m going to manually paste the HTML for posts into the WordPress … Continue reading →

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Update

Posted on 2018-03-02 by jcs

As far as I can tell, the problem is at my hosting provider’s end. I’ve opened a ticket and they are working to resolve the issue. It’s clear, however, that today’s post will have to be postponed until I and … 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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Emacs Problems: Can’t Post

Posted on 2017-12-04 by jcs

My Emacs is temporarily broken because of a Melpa/use-package problem. It looks like the problem will be resolved when the current Melpa build cycle completes and if so, I will deliver today’s wisdom then.

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Update

Posted on 2017-09-12 by jcs

Annnnd, we’re back. The power was restored this morning so things have returned to normal. I’ll be pushing today’s post directly.

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Aaaaaaand We’re Back

Posted on 2017-06-23 by jcs

Irreal headquarters are back on the Internet and will resume its quest for world domination forthwith.

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Outage

Posted on 2017-06-22 by jcs

Internet access to the International Headquarters of Irreal has been disrupted due to a cable cut. Our regularly scheduled program will resume as soon as it’s fixed.

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