Daily Archives: June 27, 2010
Remain Calm
The WordPress upgrade prompted me to look at the themes available to me, and have been experimenting with them Unfortunately, the “preview” option doesn’t seem to work, so I have to do it live. Ergo, things will look different from time to time. There were a few things I didn’t like about the Daleri Dark theme, so I’ll probably end up with a new look.
The upgrade killed the stats widget, and the upgrade to that reset everything, so I can’t tell who is really my 18th customer, and thus entitled to a free oven mitt. (Though I was somewhere over 150,000 in my aggregate daily visitor count. I haven’t advertised milestones because they don’t matter to me. Really. OK, they do, but I don’t like to advertise them unless they show I’m crushing everyone else)
Totally Made Up Fact of the Day
The seed of the idea for the Pauli exclusion principle was planted when Wolfgang Pauli and his identical twin were not allowed on the football (soccer) pitch at the same time, until the club could afford jerseys with numbers thus allowing the officiating crew to distinguish the two.
Also not well known was that their very devout sister left the church to begin a brewery.