Shtetl-Optimized is dead. Long live Shtetl-Optimized!
So, I finally had it both with Blogger, which was constantly down, and with my web hosting service, which was constantly down and inserting hidden Cialis ads into my homepage. (Yes, really.) So I ditched them both!
This morning Shtetl-Optimized finally departed the old country, and boarded a crowded ship bound for a strange new world: the world of Bluehost and WordPress. So welcome to a brand-new blog, which will feature the same name as the old one, the same topics, and the same terrible jokes. I hope you like it.
(Also this morning, I discovered a little hole-in-the-wall in Waterloo that sells hot, fresh bagels barely distinguishable from what you could get in New York. Yes, this is shaping up to be a very good day.)
(Oh, yes: Happy belated Thanksgiving to my American friends. I decided to stay in Waterloo over Thanksgiving to teach my course — is this is a sign that I’m actually becoming Canadian?)
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Comment #1 November 24th, 2006 at 1:55 pm
Maybe you can post about this to your old blog, so people who read it via RSS will know?
Comment #2 November 24th, 2006 at 2:26 pm
Anonymous: Alas, I haven’t been able to upload to the old blog for several days! (That was the final straw that caused me to switch.) But I’ll see if I can edit the old xml file manually, and thereby alert the RSSers.
Comment #3 November 24th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
OK, I just did that — can anyone with an RSS feed let me know if it worked?
Comment #4 November 24th, 2006 at 3:35 pm
worked for me ! thanks. btw was it easy switching to wordpress (and importing your posts/comments) ? I was thinking of doing the same thing as well.
Comment #5 November 24th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Suresh: Yes, it was very easy. The one catch is that you need a web hosting service that supports wordpress (and preferably installs it automatically). If you go to wordpress.org, they have a list of such services. I picked Blue Host, which was the first one listed. I’ve only been using it for a few hours, but it already seems about 10^500 times better than Network Solutions (my previous host).
Comment #6 November 24th, 2006 at 6:47 pm
ok thanks. that’s good to know.
Comment #7 November 25th, 2006 at 12:11 am
where is that bagel place?
Comment #8 November 25th, 2006 at 1:56 am
I think you should put more of your lectures online! Lots of people were following along. Thanks for the free education.
Comment #9 November 25th, 2006 at 2:02 am
It’s a-comin’!
Comment #10 November 25th, 2006 at 2:03 am
Debbie: You just had to follow the link! Rise and Shine Bagels, 52 Bridgeport East.
Comment #11 November 25th, 2006 at 6:47 am
Gotta love how reliable hosting is.
Aren’t you at the same university as Ian Goldberg now? He’s working on an interesting PIR paper.
Comment #12 November 25th, 2006 at 12:01 pm
Congrats on the switch. Can you post LaTeX with your wordpress setup?
Comment #13 November 25th, 2006 at 12:22 pm
Dunno. I’ll try next time I actually post something serious…
Comment #14 November 25th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Eh Scott, give me some credit for this new look.
Comment #15 November 25th, 2006 at 7:35 pm
BTW, there are some great looking wordpress templates out there, why do you pick this conformist look :-).
Comment #16 November 26th, 2006 at 1:30 pm
HN: Thanks!
Maybe I’ll change the look later…
Comment #17 November 28th, 2006 at 4:38 pm
The smell of bagels makes me want to work. Must be something to do with my habit of getting a bagel before I get to work. Damn you Pavlov, Damn you!
Comment #18 November 28th, 2006 at 9:10 pm
Do you have a link to the new RSS feed? I can’t seem to find it…
Comment #19 November 28th, 2006 at 9:17 pm
RSS Links are at the end of any page:
feed:https://scottaaronson-production.mystagingwebsite.com/?feed=rss2
feed:https://scottaaronson-production.mystagingwebsite.com/?feed=comments-rss2
Comment #20 November 29th, 2006 at 1:44 am
Wellcome to WordPress Scott. It is definitely the high-end corner of blogs. I’ve just heard your blog mentioned in the Cambridge night from one of my mathematician friends, so I thought I check it.
Comment #21 November 29th, 2006 at 2:38 pm
“Damn you Pavlov, Damn you!” –Dave Bacon, “Bagels”
“No one can compute how much the bulwarked learned ones have blocked the path of wisdom.” –Elbert Hubbard, “Spinoza”
Comment #22 November 29th, 2006 at 3:22 pm
Paraphrene, you made my day … I did not know that Elbert Hubbard had written a short biography of Spinoza (and our UW library has a copy, oh boy!).
Of course, even today not everyone welcomes the Enlightenment …
Comment #23 November 30th, 2006 at 5:06 am
Any comments on this result?
http://arxiv.org/abs/quant-ph/0611156
Comment #24 November 30th, 2006 at 5:31 pm
Scott, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your web host is giving your site a lot of downtime.
How come you now require the email address of posters? 90% of what I have posted in the past to this site has been anonymous; anonymity seems to enhance my humorousness.
Comment #25 November 30th, 2006 at 5:46 pm
Scott, I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but your web host is giving your site a lot of downtime.
Yeah, I know. Should hopefully be fixed now.
How come you now require the email address of posters?
To cut down on anonymous comments from wiseguys like you!
Comment #26 November 30th, 2006 at 5:48 pm
“bluehost sucks” 127 hits on google,
According to you, Complexity Theory is like the Borg; it absorbs all other subjects, resistance being futile. Time for CT to assimilate Comparative Shopping.
Comment #27 December 3rd, 2006 at 1:41 pm
Hi,
Could you change your blog URLs to be more meaningful than just “?p=160” etc.?
They’re ugly, and besides, old bookmarks to your blog are broken now. I think this might help. (And generally speaking, this too.)
Comment #28 December 4th, 2006 at 6:53 pm
Glad this is back up…you must’ve been fixin’ it late last night….nothing quite like reading a good combinatorics paper at 2 AM…
Just so the rest of the bloggers know…Scott Aaronson signed my first cousin’s Bar-Mitzvah Sign-In Board
In IAMBIC PENTAMETER….when he was 12…lol.
Oh Yeah…I would love to be your Middle-East Correspondent.
-Check out “Bionic Hornet”
-Also, “Bionic Gloves”…the IAF’s new Nano weapons in development.
Could there “bee” a “Microscopic fate” for Hezbollah?
Ari Fried’s First Cousin Oren
Comment #29 December 4th, 2006 at 7:30 pm
Perhaps your old site was hacked to add those hidden links?
Comment #30 December 4th, 2006 at 8:50 pm
Oren: Send my regards to Ari!