I have opinions

And I’ll state them here. I used to host a wordpress blog over at a personal domain, but I’ve turned that into a family blog. I also have another blog for professional (biostatistics and drug development) entries over at Realizations in Biostatistics. Here I’ll just write on random things, though given the saturation of politics [...]

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Closing up this shop, perchance to open once again

So, lately, I’ve been thinking about where to take this blog. Late last year, I spun off my professional stuff to a new blog called Realizations in Biostatistics, and pretty much kept this for my personal opinions. This particular blog has a long history, having been hosted on Blogger, .mac (using iBlog), ibiblio (using Pivot), [...]

RandomJohn.info is friendlier to mobile browsers

I just installed WordPress Mobile Edition for you mobile browsers out there. Enjoy Random John from your phone!

New directions

So, I’ve been thinking about where I want to take this blog. Mostly, it has been a personal outlet, and I’ve been writing pretty much what comes to mind. I still want that personal outlet, and Random John Reloaded will remain that forum. However, I think I need an outlet for professional blogging as well. [...]

The comment spam firehose

Did the spammers recently compromise one of the big supercomputers? I think 90% of the spam I’ve removed is in the last month. Fortunately, my spam killer has had nearly 100% sensitivity and specificity, or else it would be a whole lot harder.

Hiatus

I’m out actually doing statistics rather than talking about it. I should start appearing around these parts a little more often after Labor Day.

Busy busy

I’ve been keeping pretty busy as of late, and no time to tend the blog. In fact, my blog reading has fallen to pretty much nil. I’ll scan headlines in “bloglines”:http://www.bloglines.com, but usually not read much more in depth. At any rate, you might have heard some of the hubbub surrounding the FDA’s ringing endorsement [...]

Anniversary of a rebirth

On this day last year, I moved Random John over from “ibiblio”:http://www.ibiblio.org using “Pivot”:http://www.pivot.net blogware. As it turns out, using ibiblio with Pivot was a rather popular choice, given that Pivot stores its posts in text files rather than an SQL database. I’m glad I made the move going to Liverack was the right move [...]

Pardon the mess

So my webhosting company pulled the rug out from under me a few days too early. Fortunately, I had a backup of my WordPress database from about 2 weeks ago. Unfortunately, it wasn’t 100% compatible with my new web hosting company. But I managed. Gone are the themes and cool sidebar widgets. For now. In [...]