John Borwick’s blog

My old blog’s links are still broken. I’ve poked around at how to make WordPress respect the old links (archives/DDDDDD.html), perhaps by translating them to the new permalink structure (YYYY/MM/DD/TITLE/) or searching for the post’s content.

Typically I try very hard to adhere to the practices I want others to follow, such as never breaking a link (perhaps by providing redirects). However, right now for me I feel that Google will find all the new content, and it’s not worth my time to fix the site.

For the last few years–I guess since 2002–I haven’t had a watch. In school I could easily measure time in my head, because my 55-minute or 125-minute classes programmed me to “feel” how much time was left.

Last week I bought a watch. Some of my meetings have been running long, and in my new position I have to run more meetings. I take meetings very seriously, and especially my obligation as convenor not to waste people’s time.

The first thing I noticed was that I was checking my watch against all the other clocks in my life. Is the car clock fast? The alarm clock slow?

So, this weekend, I synchronized my watch to UTC-4. I then synchronized all our other clocks to that time. I’m very satisfied, now, at the precision of our clocks.

I just added Alex King’s “WordPress Mobile Edition” to the blog, so most mobile devices can read posts with a special “wp-mobile” theme that devotes more screen real estate to text.