Today I updated my database to MySQL 5, updated WordPress to 3.1, and fixed the pesky mis-rendering of emphasis tags (<em> … </em>) by the Talian theme this site uses. The fix for the style.css file is adding the following to style.css for the theme: i,em { display: inline !important; } (thanks to chaoskaiser for [...]

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I read today that the Dalai Lama’s nephew, Jigme Norbu, was struck and killed by a driver in Florida. (My sincere condolences to the family.) He was from Bloomington, IN, where his late father, the Dalai Lama’s brother, Thubten Norbuhold, had been a professor. In the early 1980s, a friend of mine had met the [...]

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