Color Schemes

Over at one of my online swing dancing haunts, MinnesotaLindy.com, they’re having a heated discussion about the site’s new color scheme. I personally don’t like it that much, though I’m not as virulently opposed to it as a few folks seem to be. But I’m more interested in the branding aspect of this [...]

Planet Carleton

Today at lunch a number of members of the blogging and web communities at Carleton had a great meeting (John even dubbed it Carleton BloggerCon 2006). We began to develop a plan for how to promote a unified community of bloggers at Carleton. After discussing a number of possibilities, we agreed that there needs to [...]

The Switch to Flickr

One of the things that has really held me back on updating my blog for the past 5 months has been photos. I’ve long been dissatisfied with the options I’ve had for uploading photos and putting them in my blog. The photo plugin I use now, Exhibit, works well, but it requires a [...]

Hot off the presses

It’s time.
I have long realized that there’s no point in being apologetic about failing to post on one’s personal blog. I would love to say that I’m really doing this thing for the readers (what readers there were at one time, and what readers may remain). I’ve also long learned to ignore that [...]

Posting Again

OK, that is IT. I am WRITING SOMETHING, dammit.
It just happens not to be any of my papers.
I have been contemplating my triumphant return to blogging for a couple of weeks now. I took some much needed time off, while I got some things in order. I even considered quitting the blog [...]