Why? Why?

Ok, so:

- Chance of rain: 90%
- Chance that I'm still going to ride to Glenview: 100%

Likelihood that I'll get rained on?

Update: 0% -- no rain. Yet.

London Bound (this time with photos!)

It appears that I will be lucky enough to head up to London again this September. Like the last trip, it will be for two weeks. We're still mulling what other cities we'd like to visit, but I do have at least one new London destination in mind: St. Peter's Ale Pub in Clerkenwell. Hopefully we'll be able to head back to Wapping for the Prospect of Whitby too.

And yes, this time we shall take photos.

Beauty on Two Wheels

I am very very interested in this thing: a tandem bicycle made out of wood. How cool, even if it is 115 lbs.

Fixing Blogger SFTP errors

Some time ago, I realized that running my own blogging software sucked. I had used and then screwed up somehow: Movable Type, PyBloxsom, and textpattern. It worked, mostly, until the flood of comment spam started and I got frustrated. I'll let someone else run the software, and I'll make the updates.

What I did find out that is that Blogger's SFTP service did not work "out of the box" with my new linux box. I kept getting this error:

magenta sshd[14412]: Did not receive identification string from 64.233.166.195

It turns on that the magic incantation that got it to work was the following change to my sshd_config:

# Change to yes to enable tunnelled clear text passwords
PasswordAuthentication yes

The default value was set to no. Once I did that, Blogger worked just dandy.

Note to self: Do not decide to switch servers again for awhile.