Mirwin website update in time for Fall
Summer term is over and I'm looking for work. Justin and I finally relaunched our Mirwin website to appeal to a wider audience. Pass the word along!
In Search of the perfect computation interface
Wolfram Alpha, despite its backlash in underwelmed reaction, is a great piece of technology. But it sure leaves a lot to be desired. For Business Finance class, I have to plug-and-chug a number of almost-identical equations, with only 1 or 2 variables changing each step. Being able to ad hoc define equations could eventually be automatically recognized.
One thing I wished W|A did better was handling equations with variables in them. Let me
define a variable and use it (more than once) in my equation! This could all be javascript, just to make seemless the interface. The above (and below) screenshot show the printout for the same algorithm, which uses the 0.09% "rate" value three times.
Something like Soulver.app, at the very least, would go a long way into minimizing user error and increase organization. Maybe it is time to write a GreaseMonkey script?
Importing my old blog
Finally got around to it. I tweaked the updated Drupal -> WordPress sql script to migrate blog posts and pages over without having to delete existing posts in my WordPress MU blog. And Success! My blog posts dating back from '07 and earlier are now nicely imported from my old Drupal 6 site and into WordPress.
INSERT INTO mburns_drupal.wp_posts
(post_author,
post_date,
post_date_gmt,
post_content,
post_title,
post_excerpt,
post_name,
post_modified,
post_modified_gmt)
SELECT node.nid,
FROM_UNIXTIME(node.created),
FROM_UNIXTIME(node.created),
node_revisions.body,
node.title,
node_revisions.teaser,
concat('node/', node.nid),
FROM_UNIXTIME(node.changed),
FROM_UNIXTIME(node.changed)
FROM mburns_drupal.node, mburns_drupal.node_revisions WHERE node.nid = node_revisions.nid;