Category Archives: Administrivia

Sorry for the Bad Formatting

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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Outage

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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Maintenance Window

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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