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life

Stuck in Limbo

The last few weeks I have consistently not written on Saturdays. Of course I have been generally less consistent, but Saturdays would seem like the time when I would have the most opportunity to make time to write. This week I have ample time to write, but I find that there is apparently another barrier that I will need to overcome before I can consistently post on the weekends – I am busy enough that I don’t follow the news during evenings or weekends in the last 6 weeks. All that time has been spent working on various projects related to moving (finding a house, preparing the old house, etc. The result is that I don’t have anything that I have been mulling in the back of my mind that I can remember clearly enough to write about it. I am hopeful that this is not a permanent change, but until I have more time to think I expect that my weekend posting will be infrequent at best since I don’t have news articles to react to.

The funny thing here is that just as I am finishing this post I had a thought of something worth posting about from yesterday.

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culture

April Fools Day

I’m not sure exactly why, but I can never bring myself to make anything of April Fools Day. I try to be careful that I don’t buy into any of the prank news stories that float around and I certainly don’t mind the fact that lots of people have fun with this holiday, but I don’t think I’ve ever pulled a significant April Fools joke of my own.

That puts me in a quandary. I am hesitant to write anything serious lest it be ignored as a joke and I have no desire to force some wit into my writing. Maybe I can luck out like last year. I didn’t even remember that it was April Fools Day, but as I look back at what I posted I can see that it was rather amusing.

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technology

Testing Content Management Systems

I am trying to start using a content management system that is free (as in – not the free license of a system like MT) and produces valid xhtml but I am unwilling to mess with this site where everything is running so smoothly. I once tried to move to WordPress when my site went down and found that it was easy to set up, but I could not do anything. I got a blank site and no way to access the simplest publishing or administrative interface. I have no idea what was wrong but I am less excited about WordPress than I was before.

I finally found a solution. I am going to set up a blog etc. on my family genealogy site. If I get a working system I will test how easy it is to port these blogs to the new format. If I find a good combination I will change all of this, but hopefully the end users (if there are any of you) will see almost exactly what you are seeing now. I have a couple of systems to try – WordPress (it will probably get a second chance), Mambo and Drupal.

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Education life

Back to Work

I have completed the degree/move that took me away from blogging back in November. I am excited to come back to sharing my ideas as I tackle a new degree at a new institution with a new perspective.

I will be hoping to get a few regular readers who will keep me on my toes as I post my thoughts, ideas and insights about instructional design, assessment and education.

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life meta

Back on Track

I have been busy in my offline life and have not posted for a while, but I am back. I have been wanting to talk about the path, or series of events that have lead me to my current situation. It has been an interesting ride and worthy of reflection (as proven by the fact that I have so often reflected on what has brought me here already.)

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life technology

Genealogy Site

I have got the genealogy site that I talked about in Online Genealogy. It is located at www.miller-genealogy.us although right now it is only a message which talks about the site before redirecting any visitors back to this site.

I will report progress on the site development here as it progresses . . . slowly.

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life technology

GMAIL

I have a Gmail invitation available if anyone is interested.