Results tagged “Site” from V2
Anyway there may be a few broken links here and there due to the nature of Movable Type's import/export feature, and since I also upgraded to MT4 at the same time as everything else was shuffling around. Do please email if you notice anything seriously amiss, and otherwise enjoy the ride -- it should load a lot faster now!
Some other notes - the photo gallery (link at right) hasn't been moved yet, and the 'Recent Pix' column (shows the last 10 pictures uploaded to the site) will apparently only update effective now, and doesn't have the ability to go back and see what I did back in the old version of MT. Guess that makes sense...
Oh also, the Tag Cloud feature is a neat new thing that shows how frequently various tags (which I assign to posts in addition to their category) show up with size denoting frequency, and you can click on them to see all the posts which have that tag. It's an interesting way to cross-reference.
Those of you who aren't reading this via the RSS feed might have noticed a very slight change to the layout - there's a new navigation box on the top right that links to a few other parts of the site that I've been woefully neglecting (not that the blog has been getting all that much attention either, but it's a relative measure.) Like my early post here committing myself to making an entry every day for a full month, this is mostly an effort to shame myself into getting some of these other things dealt with.
Some parts (especially the photo gallery) have an urgency in that the current location of a lot of my pictures is the free space that UW provides all students with. Since my tenure there is rapidly drawing to a close, this all needs to be moved elsewhere before it gets removed.
I did a fair bit of work last night in a caffeine-fueled frenzy, and hopefully I'll have more updates as I find myself needing breaks from thesis rewriting chores.
The thesis rolls along, slowly but surely toward a finish line.
As predicted, updates here have essentially ground to a halt, since I'm not procrastinating from boring lab work and instead am throwing down rambling semi-coherent sentences instead. I'm happy to look back and see that I managed a full month of daily updates as I intended to do, and I will continue with Caturday updates even if nothing comes between them, although I do have many things to post - mostly I'm just trying to limit my distractions to get the real work done first.
Oh, and if you're looking to hire a geneticist let me know - I come quite reasonably priced.
The internet is a series of tubes. What's that, you weren't aware? You obviously missed Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)'s comments on why it is important to allow internet providers to regulate traffic - otherwise the tubes could be filled with junk like this website, and delay the delivery of important internets sent to you by friends.
See here for more, and links to the full speech.
Remember, these are the people who control billions of our tax dollars.
After a lot of screwing things up, I think the page design is finally back to something close to what I was envisioning in my head when I started messing with it in the first place.
There are still a lot of things I want to change, such as the bullet-stars on the right and some color tweaks, but overall things are a little glossier now.
As for the banner up top (assuming you can see it)? That's a composite image of many lightning strikes from the same evening as the pictures in the post two prior to this one, along with a little work in Photoshop to improve the contrast.
I might do up a bunch of banners like that one and cycle through them using some scripting, but for now let's be happy I got one working and call it a day.
I'm still not entirely sure what I want to do with this site. I have a nagging urge to do something, but what specifically it should be remains somewhat of an enigma. There are some ideas and plans (the category list in the sidebar bears testament to that...) but at this moment the site remains somewhat of a blank slate, and something might come out of the blue and take over the main impetus.
That said, since twiddling my thumbs and waiting for inspiration to strike has thus far left nothing here (and this has been in the planning stages since last August!) I've decided to shift gears, stop using so many awful cliches in this broad declaration, and just start putting stuff up. I'm aiming to do at least one entry per day, starting immediately, and we'll see where things end up come autumn. I suspect I'll be just as surprised as anyone else by the end.
Oh, and before anyone asks, the site layout is likely to change as well. I spent a long time pontificating on that, as if well-formatted tables and style sheets make up for a lack of content.
Yes, that's a giant chicken hand-in-hand (wing-in-hand?) with the Virgin Mary.
I think that just about sums up any "justification for this website" questions until further notice.
(Ballard Fred Meyer, Ballard, Seattle, WA - early spring 2007)
NaNoWriMo 2007
