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Phil Plait, the creator of Bad Astronomy, is an astronomer, lecturer, and author. After ten years working on Hubble Space Telescope and six more working on astronomy education, he struck out on his own as a writer. He has written two books, dozens of magazine articles, and 12 bazillion blog articles. He is a skeptic, and fights misuses of science as well as praising the wonder of real science.
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December 23rd, 2006 at 2:49 pm
Testing.
December 23rd, 2006 at 2:53 pm
Looks fine to me!
December 23rd, 2006 at 4:01 pm
You are braver than me, Phil. I was planning to update my site this weekend, too, but I have been procrastinating…
CCP
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:14 pm
Testing, testing. Is this thing on? Since I only get the errors when I click submit, I don’t know yet if that has been fixed…
jbs
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:16 pm
Hmmm, no errors. Looks good then.
jbs
December 23rd, 2006 at 5:20 pm
works for me
December 23rd, 2006 at 7:51 pm
Does a picture of a cute astronomer grinning from ear to ear with the Space Shuttle in the background count as weird?
Just wonderin’.
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:06 pm
Depends on what you mean by weird. Weird for this site, no. Weird for “Answers in Genesis”, yes.
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:24 pm
Next up a CSS update?
/me ducks and runs.
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:57 pm
Posting comment.
December 23rd, 2006 at 10:58 pm
Testing
December 23rd, 2006 at 11:55 pm
Seems to load faster! Thanks.
December 24th, 2006 at 12:12 am
what would be nice would be an edit function as the only way to spot typos is to click the sub-glove (sorry Sub-mitt) button
December 24th, 2006 at 1:29 am
Only thing that looks a bit funny to me is that both the “Search the BA Blog” button and the place to enter your Email address for daily updates extend out of the table cell for that side column.
Other than that, everything looks good.
December 24th, 2006 at 3:55 am
Loads faster.
See no errors
December 24th, 2006 at 4:17 am
I agree that it would be nice to be able to edit before posting!
December 24th, 2006 at 9:16 am
Right-side panel loads at the bottom of the page in my copy of IE6, I’m afraid Phil:
http://img133.imageshack.us/my.php?image=image2vi2.png
Ian.
December 24th, 2006 at 9:46 am
Phil - If you’re not doing it already, a good way to test your site without breaking it is to install Apache and mySQL (or whatever server-side software you need) on your computer. Then you can check everything out before uploading here.
December 24th, 2006 at 10:32 am
Any chance of persuading it to show more than four entries in the RSS feed?
December 24th, 2006 at 1:49 pm
Ian: what browser/computer/OS are you using? That should all work in most common configs.
Graham: I have toyed with that, but having the most recent 4 entries displayed is the best compromise between download times for most people and max content delivered. The more I put in, the more bandwidth gets eaten up, and in general I don’t post more than 3 or so times a day. If I get linked by some big site (Fark, Digg, etc) it can really strain the server.
Jon: that looks like its a local browser issue as well. What are you using?