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Note:These pages make extensive use of the latest XHTML and CSS Standards. They ought to look great in any standards-compliant modern browser. Unfortunately, they will probably look horrible in older browsers, like Netscape 4.x and IE 4.x. Moreover, many posts use MathML, which is, currently only supported in Mozilla. My best suggestion (and you will thank me when surfing an ever-increasing number of sites on the web which have been crafted to use the new standards) is to upgrade to the latest version of your browser. If that's not possible, consider moving to the Standards-compliant and open-source Mozilla browser.

May 29, 2003

I am So Depressed!

My bag was stolen from my office today. I don’t know when, or how. I was in the office pretty much the whole day, and when we went for lunch, my colleagues agree that I locked my door. Alas, it takes but a few seconds for a thief to duck into the office and make off with the bag.

What’s missing? A $40 computer cable, an umbrella, and 8 months worth of notes and papers. Guess which I’m depressed about.

The UTPD Officer was not optimistic about recovering the bag or its contents. Somewhere out there is a very learned thief…

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Last Minute Upgrades

It never fails … Whenever I’m about to depart on a trip.

Apache 2.0.46 was released to fix a DoS attack.

MovableType 2.64 was released. The ChangeLog says 2.64 fixes a Cross-Site Scripting vulnerability. A little puzzling since, in this BugTraq thread it is claimed that MT 2.6 is not vulnerable.

Whatever…

I’m just glad that my sundry accumulation of patches to the MovableType executables (I, II, III — applied in order) worked smoothly in the new version.

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May 28, 2003

Scraping the Bottom of the Barrel

There’s much that I should be doing right now, but this was too funny to pass up. Those pesky “serious” economists can’t seem to get with the program! No wonder the CEA was banished to the hinterlands.

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May 26, 2003

Serve it Up!

For the fourth in my series of MT How-To articles, I’ll focus on serving your blog as XHTML 1.1, with Content-Type of application/xhtml+xml. Why would you want to do such a thing? Well, my reason is that I want to be able to serve embedded MathML content. You may have a similar practical reason. Or you may just enjoy following the W3C’s recommendations. I’ll assume, for the purposes of this article, that you’re interested in MathML or SVG content because that is — to my mind — the most compelling current application.

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May 20, 2003

itexToMML Updated

The itex2MML Text Filtering plugin has been updated. There are changes to both the MT plugin and the itex2mml executable (the latter, thanks to quick work by the maintainer, Paul Gartside). The changes fix the bugs noted in this thread.

Download the new package and enjoy!

Update (5/23/2003): Package rev’d again (no change to the plugin, just to the itex2mml executable). Thanks to Yuan-Chung Cheng for pointing out some more bug in itex2mml’s translation of itex to MathML entities.

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May 19, 2003

Text Filters for Comments

One of my goals, in setting up this weblog, was to be able to enter equations and such. This works very nicely for entries. Unfortunately, comment-authors are not so lucky. They don’t have access to the itex2MML Text Filter (or any other Text Filters, except the default one set blog-wide for all comme