Spack Is Dead, Long Live Spack!

Due to the slowly decreasing public use of spack.org/wiki and the steadily increasing amount of spam, I've finally taken the step of locking down the wiki.

Unless you have created an account, and it is listed as authorised on SpackGroup, you will be unable to make any changes. I'm sad to see it finally come to this but I was spending 95% of my time on this site cleaning up spam and it simply wasn't worth it anymore.

Abort. Retry. Error.

Try http://adam.shand.net/iki/

Another Test

Just trying to get the RSS stuff working again.

Upgraded Moin

Getting with the times, I've just upgraded to MoinMoin 1.5.2. I've also decided to start using the DebianLinux package of Moin rather then always doing a manual install.

It seems that Debian is now more up to date then I am. We'll see how that works out.

I'm hoping to have a chance to do some work around here (online gardening as it were) over the next few weeks. We'll see how that works out as well.

Random

• "in many cases the reasons a tradition originated is less important then the meaning it has grown into over time."
• "the wellington mafia was not particularly feared."
• "answering to someone can be the worst thing imaginable (but sometimes not)."

How to Immigrate to New Zealand

I've had several conversations with friends, and friends of friends, about immigrating to NewZealand. Each conversation conveyed different information with different levels of helpfulness based on how much time I had available at that moment.

Given that it didn't seem that I was going to be asked any less over the next year I figured I'd just write down everything I could think of in an attempt to make a "comprehensive what Adam knows" document. So, for those that might be interested I present my guide to ImmigratingToNewZealand. Thanks to everyone that helped write it, I hope it's useful.

Google Ads

So the time has come to give Google Ads a shot. The primary motivation is to try and defray the hosting costs of spack.org (since it's struggling a little bit to survive it's quarterly PledgeDrive).

We'll see how it goes, if nothing else it's interesting to see what ads Google selects for each page.