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Apologies to myself and anyone else for the delay in updating this. Facebook now gets the daily status updates, and I’ve been knee-deep at camp all summer.Fall is quickly approaching, and I’m writing up the last bits of my dissertation, tightening up what I’ve already written and prepping a bunch of articles to submit to […]

It was the WYSI-WordPress plug-in. I disabled it and can now post.  SO, an interesting thing with WordPrress i sthat it only gives me about ten seconds of posting time before it freezes up an and doenslt let me type anymore. Ok, so this time it’s giving meThe trick, it seems, is to adjust the size […]

I was sad to have lots of SPAM comments. I installed Bad Behavior.
Q: I have been blocked by Bad Behavior! What do I do?

A: In extremely rare circumstances, Bad Behavior may block actual human visitors. Bad Behavior was designed to target robots, not people.
These “extremely rare circumstances” apparently hit a lot of folks (like me) […]

Bought a new Jay Turser JT-133 semi hollow-body guitar this morning, on eBay. Walnut. Should be good. At least a lot of people like the model.
Walked into the local St. Vinny “Dig’n’Save” looking for a cheap patio table. Saw a very cool, low-slung, retro, light oak bed frame for $10, and walked out with it. […]

Yay, it’s back to looking like what it’s supposed to look like (mostly). I could spend some time making a few more tweaks (e.g. Search box is positioned wrong), or I could just let it go as “good enough” and focus on more important things. While I’m typically not one to let these things go, […]

My thanks to those of you who emailed about the downed blog. And my apologies to any who were at all sad about it being down.
Thanks to Dastryni at Dreamhost for figuring out the culprit was a plugin. I’ve disabled all the plugins, so the blog now loads. And I’ll begin the process of rebuilding […]

The last few days I’ve been using the Firebug extension with Firefox in order to put together a drupal site for regardingjohn (testing and configuring here), and I have to say that I *love* Firebug, which, because it runs on top of Firefox, means that I can no longer *hate* Firefox.
I’ll miss the hatred a […]

Before I ventured into education and computer games I was a poet of sorts, and really liked writing and poetry readings. There was something really cool about seeing often-shy people read stuff that they weren’t sure should be read in public. There’s the whole aspect of performance anxiety (I hold that drama/performance should be a […]

In the “Whoops!” department, I [cough] deleted some files that were in the same directory as the files I meant to delete.
This caused some consternation for the afternoon, as my blog error’d out and essentially disappeared. And I spent most of the afternoon messing about with it — trying one thing after another; alternately giggling […]

I like the *idea* of WordPress as a blogging tool. I like having it all on my hosted space because it somehow feels more secure to me (although I’m not sure why I trust DreamHost more than Blogger).
I’m still not familiar with the new-to-me system of Word Press, though, to feel comfortable with it. For […]

It always happens. You get a new tool, a new blog, a new website or presence, and you inevitably have to write something. Otherwise the presence isn’t yours. It’s like sticking that flag in the ground, or making some mark on it that says “I was here.”

My .Mac membership expires in 3 days, and rather than renew it for a third year, I’ve decided to not put up with the shoddiness of .Mac (at a premium price — not the kind of thing I expect from Apple), and instead get a much bigger, fully hosted site (for much less money).
Consequently, my […]