Back to School

Posted on August 28th, 2008 in Random Thoughts and Stories, Site Maintenance by Robb

Grad school has started back up, so posting will be irregular for the next few months. This semester looks to be quite reading-intensive, and I’ll likely be averaging anywhere from 500-700 pages a week. That will taper off as the semester goes on and the writing increases however. Keep an eye on the sidebar for what I am Currently Reading, as I’ll try to at least keep that updated. There also may be a writing excerpt from my WIP thrown in every now and then, as there will be little prep needed for a post like that.

Speaking of my WIP (Work in Progress), one of the last things I was working on this summer was a plugin/widget that would display an updatable progress bar for everything I am currently writing. It was kind of fun teaching myself PHP in order to try and get this done, but, alas, I broke more stuff than I actually created. Such is life. Perhaps I’ll be able to revisit it over the Winter break and see where I went astray. If anyone knows PHP and wants a little project, drop me a line via email or in the comments and I’ll go into more detail about what I am looking to do.

Updating…

Posted on April 5th, 2008 in Site Maintenance by Robb

Taking a break from grading and updating the site. If it disappears for a moment or three, I probably blew it up. But I am backing it up, so it won’t be gone forever. Hooray for WP-DBManager!

edit: ok that was frighteningly simple… I wonder what I screwed up that I can’t see. Guess we’ll find out! I’ll need to start spending some more time exploring all the new stuff with WP 2.5. It looks a whole lot more fun and easy to use that it was before. There are also a bunch more things for me to figure out how to use. One of these days I’ll have the time to really get into it, but today is not one of those days.