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Rumblings
Signs of life on the blog. I’m starting with a full remodel. From scratch, as they say. I’m learning some things along the way that will help professionally at this point. I’ve also installed a linkchecker that reports many hundreds of broken links, so I’ve some work to do there as well.
I need to get [...]
Rest in Peace, TheBrad
Brad Graham was an inspiration to me, as I’m sure he was to many bloggers who’ve been around for the long haul. He’s been on my bookmarks list forever, even though he hasn’t written regularly on his blog in a few years (I know the feeling). It’s a real shock to learn of Brad’s death [...]
Reboot
I’ve been fortunate for the past two decades to get most of intersession as paid time off — one of the perks of working in higher education. I’ve often used part of that time off to do a redesign project with my blog.
This year, it’s not just a redesign, but a total reboot. New blog [...]
It’s All Connected … Somehow
Happy Patriot’s Day! It’s a holiday for me, so I’ve taken my bonus holiday to sleep in, eat a fresh peach-blueberry-almond muffin I baked last night, and watch some morning baseball (the traditional start time for the Red Sox is 11am).
I’ve also spent the day working on my blog renovations. There are so many plugins [...]
Baking Bread and Other Creative Outlets
Sometimes, when the creative horse runs into your corral, you’ve just got to strap on the saddle and kick the spurs. In the past 24+ hours, I redesigned the blog. Simplified it quite a bit too. I like it much better. (Editor’s note – this was written about the final design on the old blog [...]
Thanks, Askimet
I just caught this alert on my dashboard in leatheregg.com’s WordPress dashboard — nearly 50,000 spam comments caught by Askimet. Considering there are days when I still get 4 or 5 comments going into moderation that Askimet doesn’t catch, I’m pretty happy that Askimet exists. That’s a lot of potential spam to manually trash.
A Trimester
Wow … over 3 months since I’ve posted here. I’m not sure I’ve gone that long without a post over the past 10+ years. I’ve been focusing mostly on a huge work project which launched on Labor Day, so I think the 50-60+ hour weeks are behind me, at least for the foreseeable future. But [...]
10+ Years … and Still Wagging the Dog
Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls … welcome to Fenway Park! I love hearing those words, and for the second morning in a row, those words opened the Red Sox game coverage on television — at 6:00 a.m.! Yes, I’ve awoken at 5:00 a.m. two mornings in a row to watch pre-game coverage for the [...]
