The Atropos plugin lets you set an expiration date for your posts. This is done in a new Advanced Options section of the post edit page:

Just pick your month and put in the date and year and your post will automatically be deleted at the end of that day. Note that the expired posts are DELETED. Be sure that you want to do this. I disavow any responsibility if you delete your entire blog because you weren’t being careful.

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You reap what you sow, I suppose. Yesterday, I criticized Cuil partly for their lack of stability under stress.

Last night, one side of my UPS died. Just died. No beeps, nothing. One side works, the other doesn’t. I guess one of the batteries has finished its lead-filled little life. That took out my primary name server and my in-house hub. At first, I thought it was just the hub, so I borrowed one from my brother-in-law and swapped that out. Still no light on the name server. Figured that out and managed to keep the downtime to an hour or so. Given that the two secondary name servers were alive and well, all was okay. it didn’t last. (Read more…)

Cuil was finally ready for its big debut. The Press had picked up the story. Digg was awash with stories of how it would kill Google.

So, I decided to check it out and I have to say I am disappointed. I’m cool with their Gaelic spelling of “cool,” but there are two significant problems with their service as currently released. (Read more…)