diff --git a/content/2016-08.md b/content/2016-08.md
index b13e56285..8d34038cf 100644
--- a/content/2016-08.md
+++ b/content/2016-08.md
@@ -52,3 +52,35 @@ dspacetest=# update metadatavalue set authority='0b4fcbc1-d930-4319-9b4d-ea1553c
 ## 2016-08-06
 
 - Finally figured out how to remove "View/Open" and "Bitstreams" from the item view
+
+## 2016-08-07
+
+- Start working on Ubuntu 16.04 Ansible playbook for Tomcat 8, PostgreSQL 9.5, Oracle 8, etc
+
+## 2016-08-08
+
+- Still troubleshooting Atmire modules on DSpace 5.5
+- Vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 7...
+- Ooh, and vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 8 with Java 8!
+- Some notes about setting up Tomcat 8, since it's new on this machine...
+- Install latest Oracle Java 8 JDK
+- Create `setenv.sh` in Tomcat 8 `libexec/bin` directory:
+    
+```
+CATALINA_OPTS="-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms3072m -Xmx3072m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8"
+CATALINA_OPTS="$CATALINA_OPTS -Djava.library.path=/opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat-native/1.2.8/lib"
+
+JRE_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_102.jdk/Contents/Home
+```
+
+- Edit Tomcat 8 `server.xml` to add regular HTTP listener for solr
+- Symlink webapps:
+
+```
+$ rm -rf /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/ROOT
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/xmlui /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/ROOT
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/oai /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/oai
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/jspui /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/jspui
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/rest /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/rest
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/solr /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/solr
+```
diff --git a/public/2016-08/index.html b/public/2016-08/index.html
index 31ae14a2a..cbf2ea124 100644
--- a/public/2016-08/index.html
+++ b/public/2016-08/index.html
@@ -137,6 +137,43 @@ $ git rebase -i dspace-5.5
 <li>Finally figured out how to remove &ldquo;View/Open&rdquo; and &ldquo;Bitstreams&rdquo; from the item view</li>
 </ul>
 
+<h2 id="2016-08-07">2016-08-07</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Start working on Ubuntu 16.04 Ansible playbook for Tomcat 8, PostgreSQL 9.5, Oracle 8, etc</li>
+</ul>
+
+<h2 id="2016-08-08">2016-08-08</h2>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Still troubleshooting Atmire modules on DSpace 5.5</li>
+<li>Vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 7&hellip;</li>
+<li>Ooh, and vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 8 with Java 8!</li>
+<li>Some notes about setting up Tomcat 8, since it&rsquo;s new on this machine&hellip;</li>
+<li>Install latest Oracle Java 8 JDK</li>
+<li>Create <code>setenv.sh</code> in Tomcat 8 <code>libexec/bin</code> directory:
+<br /></li>
+</ul>
+
+<pre><code>CATALINA_OPTS=&quot;-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms3072m -Xmx3072m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8&quot;
+CATALINA_OPTS=&quot;$CATALINA_OPTS -Djava.library.path=/opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat-native/1.2.8/lib&quot;
+
+JRE_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_102.jdk/Contents/Home
+</code></pre>
+
+<ul>
+<li>Edit Tomcat 8 <code>server.xml</code> to add regular HTTP listener for solr</li>
+<li>Symlink webapps:</li>
+</ul>
+
+<pre><code>$ rm -rf /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/ROOT
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/xmlui /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/ROOT
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/oai /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/oai
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/jspui /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/jspui
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/rest /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/rest
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/solr /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/solr
+</code></pre>
+
   </section>
   <footer>
     
diff --git a/public/index.html b/public/index.html
index 794319e3e..7bbeb6672 100644
--- a/public/index.html
+++ b/public/index.html
@@ -71,7 +71,7 @@
     </div>
   </header>
   <div>
-    2016-08-01 Add updated distribution license from Sisay (#259) Play with upgrading Mirage 2 dependencies in bower.json because most are several versions of out date Bootstrap is at 3.3.0 but upstream is at 3.3.7, and upgrading to anything beyond 3.3.1 breaks glyphicons and probably more bower stuff is a dead end, waste of time, too many issues Anything after Bootstrap 3.3.1 makes glyphicons disappear (HTTP 404 trying to access from incorrect
+    2016-08-01 Add updated distribution license from Sisay (#259) Play with upgrading Mirage 2 dependencies in bower.json because most are several versions of out date Bootstrap is at 3.3.0 but upstream is at 3.3.7, and upgrading to anything beyond 3.3.1 breaks glyphicons and probably more bower stuff is a dead end, waste of time, too many issues Anything after Bootstrap 3.3.1 makes glyphicons disappear (HTTP 404 trying to access from incorrect path of fonts) Start working on DSpace 5.1 → 5.5 port: $ git checkout -b 55new 5_x-prod $ git reset --hard ilri/5_x-prod $ git rebase -i dspace-5.5 Lots of conflicts that don&rsquo;t make sense (ie, shouldn&rsquo;t conflict!) This file in particular conflicts almost 10 times: dspace/modules/xmlui-mirage2/src/main/webapp/themes/CGIAR/styles/_style.scss Checking out a clean branch at 5.5 and cherry-picking our commits works where that file would normally have a conflict Seems to be related to merge commits git rebase --preserve-merges doesn&rsquo;t seem to help Eventually I just turned on git rerere and solved the conflicts and completed the 403 commit rebase The 5.5 code now builds but doesn&rsquo;t run (white page in Tomcat) 2016-08-02 Ask Atmire for help with DSpace 5.5 issue Vanilla DSpace 5.5 deploys and runs fine Playing with DSpace in Ubuntu 16.04 and Tomcat 7 Everything is still fucked up, even vanilla DSpace 5.5 2016-08-04 Ask on DSpace mailing list about duplicate authors, Discovery and author text values Atmire responded with some new DSpace 5.5 ready versions to try for their modules 2016-08-05 Fix item display incorrectly displaying Species when Breeds were present (#260) Experiment with fixing more authors, like Delia Grace: dspacetest=# update metadatavalue set authority='0b4fcbc1-d930-4319-9b4d-ea1553cca70b', confidence=600 where metadata_field_id=3 and text_value='Grace, D.'; 2016-08-06 Finally figured out how to remove &ldquo;View/Open&rdquo; and &ldquo;Bitstreams&rdquo; from the item view 2016-08-07 Start working on Ubuntu 16.04 Ansible playbook for Tomcat 8, PostgreSQL 9.5, Oracle 8, etc 2016-08-08 Still troubleshooting Atmire modules on DSpace 5.5 Vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 7&hellip; Ooh, and vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 8 with Java 8!
   </div>
   
   <footer>
diff --git a/public/index.xml b/public/index.xml
index 44500e8d9..54e3c6add 100644
--- a/public/index.xml
+++ b/public/index.xml
@@ -74,6 +74,43 @@ $ git rebase -i dspace-5.5
 &lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Finally figured out how to remove &amp;ldquo;View/Open&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Bitstreams&amp;rdquo; from the item view&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;2016-08-07&#34;&gt;2016-08-07&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Start working on Ubuntu 16.04 Ansible playbook for Tomcat 8, PostgreSQL 9.5, Oracle 8, etc&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;2016-08-08&#34;&gt;2016-08-08&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Still troubleshooting Atmire modules on DSpace 5.5&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 7&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Ooh, and vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 8 with Java 8!&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Some notes about setting up Tomcat 8, since it&amp;rsquo;s new on this machine&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Install latest Oracle Java 8 JDK&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Create &lt;code&gt;setenv.sh&lt;/code&gt; in Tomcat 8 &lt;code&gt;libexec/bin&lt;/code&gt; directory:
+&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;CATALINA_OPTS=&amp;quot;-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms3072m -Xmx3072m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8&amp;quot;
+CATALINA_OPTS=&amp;quot;$CATALINA_OPTS -Djava.library.path=/opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat-native/1.2.8/lib&amp;quot;
+
+JRE_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_102.jdk/Contents/Home
+&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Edit Tomcat 8 &lt;code&gt;server.xml&lt;/code&gt; to add regular HTTP listener for solr&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Symlink webapps:&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ rm -rf /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/ROOT
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/xmlui /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/ROOT
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/oai /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/oai
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/jspui /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/jspui
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/rest /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/rest
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/solr /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/solr
+&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
 </description>
     </item>
     
diff --git a/public/tags/notes/index.html b/public/tags/notes/index.html
index 9adc77e58..37879b77c 100644
--- a/public/tags/notes/index.html
+++ b/public/tags/notes/index.html
@@ -75,7 +75,7 @@
     </div>
   </header>
   <div>
-    2016-08-01 Add updated distribution license from Sisay (#259) Play with upgrading Mirage 2 dependencies in bower.json because most are several versions of out date Bootstrap is at 3.3.0 but upstream is at 3.3.7, and upgrading to anything beyond 3.3.1 breaks glyphicons and probably more bower stuff is a dead end, waste of time, too many issues Anything after Bootstrap 3.3.1 makes glyphicons disappear (HTTP 404 trying to access from incorrect
+    2016-08-01 Add updated distribution license from Sisay (#259) Play with upgrading Mirage 2 dependencies in bower.json because most are several versions of out date Bootstrap is at 3.3.0 but upstream is at 3.3.7, and upgrading to anything beyond 3.3.1 breaks glyphicons and probably more bower stuff is a dead end, waste of time, too many issues Anything after Bootstrap 3.3.1 makes glyphicons disappear (HTTP 404 trying to access from incorrect path of fonts) Start working on DSpace 5.1 → 5.5 port: $ git checkout -b 55new 5_x-prod $ git reset --hard ilri/5_x-prod $ git rebase -i dspace-5.5 Lots of conflicts that don&rsquo;t make sense (ie, shouldn&rsquo;t conflict!) This file in particular conflicts almost 10 times: dspace/modules/xmlui-mirage2/src/main/webapp/themes/CGIAR/styles/_style.scss Checking out a clean branch at 5.5 and cherry-picking our commits works where that file would normally have a conflict Seems to be related to merge commits git rebase --preserve-merges doesn&rsquo;t seem to help Eventually I just turned on git rerere and solved the conflicts and completed the 403 commit rebase The 5.5 code now builds but doesn&rsquo;t run (white page in Tomcat) 2016-08-02 Ask Atmire for help with DSpace 5.5 issue Vanilla DSpace 5.5 deploys and runs fine Playing with DSpace in Ubuntu 16.04 and Tomcat 7 Everything is still fucked up, even vanilla DSpace 5.5 2016-08-04 Ask on DSpace mailing list about duplicate authors, Discovery and author text values Atmire responded with some new DSpace 5.5 ready versions to try for their modules 2016-08-05 Fix item display incorrectly displaying Species when Breeds were present (#260) Experiment with fixing more authors, like Delia Grace: dspacetest=# update metadatavalue set authority='0b4fcbc1-d930-4319-9b4d-ea1553cca70b', confidence=600 where metadata_field_id=3 and text_value='Grace, D.'; 2016-08-06 Finally figured out how to remove &ldquo;View/Open&rdquo; and &ldquo;Bitstreams&rdquo; from the item view 2016-08-07 Start working on Ubuntu 16.04 Ansible playbook for Tomcat 8, PostgreSQL 9.5, Oracle 8, etc 2016-08-08 Still troubleshooting Atmire modules on DSpace 5.5 Vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 7&hellip; Ooh, and vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 8 with Java 8!
   </div>
   
   <footer>
diff --git a/public/tags/notes/index.xml b/public/tags/notes/index.xml
index 4780adf51..a2ba13859 100644
--- a/public/tags/notes/index.xml
+++ b/public/tags/notes/index.xml
@@ -74,6 +74,43 @@ $ git rebase -i dspace-5.5
 &lt;ul&gt;
 &lt;li&gt;Finally figured out how to remove &amp;ldquo;View/Open&amp;rdquo; and &amp;ldquo;Bitstreams&amp;rdquo; from the item view&lt;/li&gt;
 &lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;2016-08-07&#34;&gt;2016-08-07&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Start working on Ubuntu 16.04 Ansible playbook for Tomcat 8, PostgreSQL 9.5, Oracle 8, etc&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;h2 id=&#34;2016-08-08&#34;&gt;2016-08-08&lt;/h2&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Still troubleshooting Atmire modules on DSpace 5.5&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 7&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Ooh, and vanilla DSpace 5.5 works on Tomcat 8 with Java 8!&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Some notes about setting up Tomcat 8, since it&amp;rsquo;s new on this machine&amp;hellip;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Install latest Oracle Java 8 JDK&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Create &lt;code&gt;setenv.sh&lt;/code&gt; in Tomcat 8 &lt;code&gt;libexec/bin&lt;/code&gt; directory:
+&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;CATALINA_OPTS=&amp;quot;-Djava.awt.headless=true -Xms3072m -Xmx3072m -XX:+UseConcMarkSweepGC -XX:+CMSIncrementalMode -Dfile.encoding=UTF-8&amp;quot;
+CATALINA_OPTS=&amp;quot;$CATALINA_OPTS -Djava.library.path=/opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat-native/1.2.8/lib&amp;quot;
+
+JRE_HOME=/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/jdk1.8.0_102.jdk/Contents/Home
+&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
+
+&lt;ul&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Edit Tomcat 8 &lt;code&gt;server.xml&lt;/code&gt; to add regular HTTP listener for solr&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;li&gt;Symlink webapps:&lt;/li&gt;
+&lt;/ul&gt;
+
+&lt;pre&gt;&lt;code&gt;$ rm -rf /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/ROOT
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/xmlui /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/ROOT
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/oai /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/oai
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/jspui /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/jspui
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/rest /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/rest
+$ ln -sv ~/dspace/webapps/solr /opt/brew/Cellar/tomcat/8.5.4/libexec/webapps/solr
+&lt;/code&gt;&lt;/pre&gt;
 </description>
     </item>