Category Archives: Administrative

Dumping TikiWiki for WikkaWiki

I am planning to dump TikiWiki and replace it with WikkaWiki.
The reasons behind my initial choice of TikiWiki were:

I thought it was a good idea to have blog and wiki in one, uniform place.
TikiWiki was automatically provided by bluehost, so I had something less to worry about, in particular because at that time I had [...]

reCaptcha

I added reCaptcha to the comments. reCaptcha is a Captcha system, one of those systems that tries to understand if you are a human or an automatic program (a bot, normally for spamming). This normally consist in asking you to type the letters from an image, a task that a human can do easily, but [...]

Bluehost, wordpress and the registration mail From address

During the setup of wordpress, I realized that registration emails were sent out with a strange login(at)box.bluehost.com, instead of something more user friendly, like wordpress(at)the_site. A little investigation in the sources lead to the finding that wordpress uses the php mail() call, and the From address is correctly set to wordpress(at)the_site, therefore the wordpress setup [...]

Updated bookshelf and about me pages

I just updated the About Me and Bookshelf pages. A photo of myself is missing, but I’m planning to add it as soon as possible.
The bookshelf now contains a link to my Amazon wishlist. I expect to buy and study other books as soon as I deplete the current queue.

Welcome!

A warm welcome to anyone browsing this website.
The idea of this site came to me when I decided to write down many experiences I had in science. Many sources are available for science, the most notable probably being Wikipedia, and I’m not really trying to fill a gap. Most of the information you will find [...]

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