never been here before.
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Well, after all that talk in the last post about not wanting to have the blogging software on our server until later, I decided to take the plunge anyway. So I’ve been tinkering around with WordPress<\/a> on our webspace for most of the evening. It’s popular, sure, which makes it a bigger target for hackers, but security seems to be making progress with the latest release, it’s reasonably lightweight and seems to have really good support for web standards. Besides which, I’ve seen some WordPress-driven sites with incredibly elegant source code, so I have high hopes that I can achieve the same. The icing on the cake is that there are apparently several ways to import other blogs (like Blogger and LJ) in the database; in other words, the process stands a good chance of being a lot more streamlined than simply one post at a time. So that’s great too. I’m optimistic. Now if I could just get the file permissions sorted out we’d be in business… Soon, soon.<\/p>\n My aunt got into a pretty bad car accident today. She lives close to my parents, about an hour and a half away, so they’re looking after her. She’s my dad’s sister, never married, and about three years younger than him. She’s okay but in the ICU tonight. The prognosis is for her to be out of the hospital in about a week or so, depending. Prayers appreciated.<\/p>\n I’ve been interested in the Soviet<\/a>\/Russian space program<\/a> lately. The DVD series<\/a> I got for Christmas covers NASA<\/a> in exhaustive detail but omits any references about their rivals in the space race except as a passing mention for their firsts like Gagarin’s flight<\/a> and the first spacewalk<\/a> or cooperative projects like the Apollo-Soyuz docking<\/a> and Russia’s help with the ISS<\/a>. The book<\/a> I got for my birthday discusses their achievements, though, and overall, the impression that I get is just one of mass chaos and disorganization, a wild technological stabbing at space compared to NASA’s calculated resolve. It’s been said one of the biggest ironies of the space race is that the space programs of the two nations were directed in ways opposite the prevailing philosophies of their regimes. In other words, a very bureaucratic, centralized nation like the Soviet Union allowed widespread competition between rival firms in the hope that a better design would emerge, whereas the United States, the most capitalist nation in the world, conducted a very monolithic space program under the auspices of one agency: NASA. I think history shows that given the immense technological hurdles to be overcome to achieve the goals of the space race, not to mention the scope and mobilization of national resources required, the greater focus made possible by NASA’s approach was clearly the best. Still… The overlapping patchwork of programs on the other side, in contrast to NASA’s linear Mercury-Gemini-Apollo-Skylab-Shuttle sequence, is fascinating. More to come about this, I’m sure.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" never been here before. peculiarly entrusted, possibly that’s all Well, after all that talk in the last post about not wanting to have the blogging software on our server until later, I decided to take the plunge anyway. So I’ve been tinkering around with WordPress on our webspace for most of the evening. It’s popular, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1266"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1266\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1266"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1266"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.boldulysses.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1266"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}