The current draft is https://meta.wikimedia.org/wik...

This is linguistic relativity, and used to be called the Sapir-Whorf hypothesis. I think it has not lived up to its early promise as a tool to understand the relationship between language structure and cognition, but there are times when it is a useful tool. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/...

That's exactly how my site works - it turns a folder structure of markdown(ish) files into a folder structure of indexed and cross-linked html, then rsync's the result to my server. No database, no dependencies, just files and a python script or two.

I even exported and converted 400 posts from WordPress using a small script.

I looked at pelican at the time. I can't remember why I didn't use it, but rolling my own was a fun project.

I ran a low traffic WordPress blog for many years. WordPress has many great features but between insecure plugins and a constantly updating core system, it just takes too much time to administer for someone who just wants to host a simple no-fuss blog.

My advice is for anyone starting a personal blog is to either use a WordPress hosting company or just go with something like Tumblr. You don't get the flexibility, but your life will be easier.

I got so fed up that I wrote my own static site generator to run my site. It doesn't have the nice features of WordPress but it certainly won't collapse under load and I get to laugh at the script-kiddies trying to hack the non-existent php scripts.

I feel confident that if the defendant had had a competent expert to rebut the Malibu phony experts, defendant would have won.

The real story is that defendant didn't have his own expert to counter Patzer's BS

Actually whoever the new guy is, I don't find the site to be "improved" at all; seems a little crummy. The story was butchered and incorrectly interpreted, and the all important software for interaction seems less interactive.

But what do I know?

As to my absence I've been a bit overwhelmed by work stuff, sorry about that, it's no excuse :)

The story as published implies that the ruling overruled the lower court on the 3 issues. In fact, it was agreeing with the trial court on the third issue -- that the sporadic instances of Vimeo employees making light of copyright law did not amount to adopting a "policy of willful blindness".

I remember you from about ten years ago. Most of the old admins do. I'm glad you're no longer thinking of harming yourself, and if you do want to return to Wikipedia in the future, I'll do my best to help the process.

In the mid-1980s I had a program called PC-Alien which ran on an MS-Dos machine and which could read almost any undamaged CP/M formatted disk. There is a more recent program which appears to have similar capabilites: OmniFlop, but I have no experience of using this. Such a program means a standard IBM PC, still reasonably commonly available, could read the undamaged disks rather than searching for an even older and rarer CP/M machine.

A third approach is to have a robot independent of the vehicle which can drive it, and presumably can switch from one vehicle to another. The best example of this I'm aware of is Yamaha's motobot which is capable of riding a motorcycle on a track. I'm not sure how much of the article is speculation rather than existing capability. http://pcmag.com/robotics-automation-products/39534/news/this-yamaha-robot-can-drive-a-motorcyle