The UW-Madison Writing Center has a blogging workshop: “Productive and Professional Blogging” — I’m going. I’ve been pretty open about the ideas floating around in my head since an incident in my undergrad years when a group of colleagues realized we’d been thinking the same thing, but each thought s/he was the only one. Blogging [...]
Where Have I Been? 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 [...]
Freezing Out in WordPress SO, an interesting thing with WordPress is that it only gives me about ten seconds of posting time before it freezes up and doesn’t let me type anymore. Ok, so this time it’s giving me The trick, it seems, is to adjust the size of t [Update: It was the WYSI-WordPress [...]
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I have been Blocked by Bad Behavior! 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 [...]
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 [...]
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, [...]
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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 [...]
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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 [...]
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