Aug 9
I’ll probably be dropping down to one post per week until the end of September. There are a couple of different reasons for this, but the main one is that I’m trying to finish up my entry for IFComp 2010. There’s a lot of work left to do, and I’m really needing to use as much of my time as possible on this to ensure it’s a top-quality entry this year.
Once that’s been released I’ll try to pick the pace back up again.
Jun 23
WordPress 3.0 has been out long enough that I’m feeling guardedly optimistic that all the major upgrade issues have been found. So I’m going to upgrade immediately after posting this!
With luck, you won’t notice any differences. I’ll edit this post with my impressions of the new upgrade…
… and yeah, no visible differences in the theme (as it should be) and really not that much different on the admin pages either. The upgrade was clean and fast; another good rollout by the WP team.
May 28
Sorry for the lack of updates this week. We’re leaving town for Memorial Day, so I probably won’t post again until next Wednesday. I actually have quite a lot to report, including Thomas’ birthday to our air conditioner woes and Katherine’s adventures in “cooking”, but I need to get the pictures downloaded first, and get my life back under control.
Have a good weekend!
May 8
Due to a SNAFU with Namecheap, I lost my domain for a day. Combined with a power outage due to a storm here, we were left with no webpage, and when I got the computer back up, still no webpage and no mail forwarding. So I quickly re-upped the registration and got everything set up, but I had lost the post I’d sent to my email account. I should be able to retrieve it tomorrow.
I had not come across this before, but there is an online analyzer for prose that purports to determine if the author is male or female, apparently by counting the frequency of certain keywords in your text.
So I scraped the front page of my blog and fed it into the analyzer. Although the count was close, my “female count” was about 10% higher than my “male count”, so their algorithm guesses that I am female.
As a control, I also fed in the only actual female-authored text on the site, the post I Want Glue Teeth, which was written by Robin.
I’d love to be able to report that it thought she was a man, but actually the female/male ratio on that article was about 2:1, so at least Robin is more of a woman than I am, which is as it should be.
Oops! Gotta go! Gloria Steinem is guesting on Oprah today!
Feb 22
No update today! Catch you on Wednesday!
Oct 14
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With Jonathan’s arrival and the attendant extra work (and reduced sleep) I think I’m going to once again change the posting schedule of this blog, so as not to have to generate filler posts just to say I posted something.
I’ll be posting Monday, Wednesday, and Friday from here on out. That should be a more feasible schedule and I should be able to come up with more substantial posts.
Oct 7
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Sorry, nothing of much note to report. I’m rust-stripping the eaves at home; that’s about it. I’ll upload some more pictures for tomorrow.
Sep 7
My no-weekend post policy will now officially apply to holidays as well. Enjoy the extra day off!
Aug 3
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… at least for this iteration of the blog. Apparently my adventures in interactive fiction have been linked by Jerz’s Literacy Weblog, a very nice blog site I had actually come across when I was searching around for interactive fiction resources a few months ago.
You can tell how (un)popular my blog is based on the disproportionate excitement over this single, solitary link. But hey, it’s a start! Thanks, Jerz!
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