It’s taken more than half a month, but I’ve finally found time to sit down and write a brief note here to celebrate the fact that my blog is now 11 years old. Perseverance in the blogosphere is easy, especially if you only bother to update your blog once a year! I think in fact [...]
Just a quick note for the occasional visitor to this site. I’m going to try to prune comment spam by using the (Tim) Burke solution: comments are still enabled but I’ve required you to register if you want to say something here on the blog. Hopefully this will encourage community and keep me from having [...]
It’s a sign of how neglected this blog has become that I failed to blog its tenth anniversary on 1 Jan 2011. The neglect is a sign of success — tweeting, blogging for Savage Minds, writing for Inside Higher Ed, and of course working on actual academic publications. Still, it’s a bit sad that I [...]
My laptop temporarily melted. I blame the third party power source. Let this be a lesson to you, ebay shoppers. Back with O tomorrow.
Yesterday this blog turned seven. Today I updated my wordpress install. The lesson of the past 365 days? Stop being so afraid about blogging personal stuff. I’m planning for their to be an uptick in content quality this year. Go 2009!
This is the seventh anniversary of my blog — as its lifespan creeps towards double digits and the number of posts shrinks it seems more and more clear to me that it has become a permanent habit, albeit one lacking in the original drive that I once had for it. This is what happens when [...]
A quick note — I’ve moved from my old Textdrive server to the new Textdrive-absorbing Joyent server. So there will be some outages as I move stuff over from one server to the other but on the positive side: MUCH faster load times.
I’ve updated the “things I’ve written”:http://alex.golub.name/log/things-ive-written/ page to include two new articles that have appeared recently. Just FYI.
I’ve updated the look of my website. This is my way of giving up on keeping web design one of my main skills and relegating it to something I used to do in my glory days. The theme looks fantastic because it’s Ben Eastaugh and Chris Johnson’s superb “Tarski”:http://ionfish.co.uk/tarski/ theme. I may try to tweak [...]
As it turned out posting “Lightsaber Without A Key” on someone else’s server didn’t work out too well and alwaysblack and I decided it would be best if I ran the remainder of the story here on alex.golub.name. Nothing traumatic, just quicker updates this way. There is now a “Lightsaber Without A Key”:http://alex.golub.name/log/the-lightsaber-without-a-key/ page that [...]
Heh. I just upgraded to WordPress 2.0 and the backend is VERY pretty. Also: yeah instant category adds!
Today my blog turns four. On previous anniversaries I was able to reflect back on the blog’s history and its twists and turns over time. After four years, however, these begin to fade into the background. Come to think of it — what did I do this year? A year ago I had just moved [...]
Some weirdness may happen to the website as I switch over to my new server. Then again it may not. Hold on a sec.
The rest of the month will be a particularly busy time for me as a number of due dates, publications, applications, and courses all align into a crunch time of cosmic proportions. This means I will either not blog at all because I will be too busy, or else I will blog a lot in [...]
I just updated to “WordPress 1.5.1″:http://wordpress.org/development/2005/05/one-five-one/. Since this is a minor upgrade if anything is broken it is definitely my fault. You can upgrade too if you like.
I’ll be in Portland for the next couple of days. Posts to resume thereafter. Be good to each other while I’m gone.
Brand new sidebar — same great taste! Let me know of additions changes, comments etc. I’ve added links to my outboard brain sites (delicious, citeulike, bloglines) as well as archives by category and date, as well as a blogroll of all the anthropologists I could find. This last is a dump of my anthropology folder [...]
… That is the question. Should I include one on this site? Academic believe information should be free — unless it should be a deep, dark secret. I know people who hand out off prints left and right to all comers but then stonewall mightily when asked for CVs or even — secret of secret! [...]
The never ending struggle of the comments appears to be over, at least for now. Please let me know immediately what your “twenty minute acoustic set in heaven”:http://alex.golub.name/log/?p=347#comments would be. If I am wrong in re: comments then drop me a line.
I think when I added the search box to the left hand column of the log I broke the comments. Sorry for that — especially when the ’20 minute acoustic set’ post and the ‘race’ post have been popular enough that people have been emailing me personally with suggestions, etc. It’ll be fixed soon. For [...]
I recently upgraded to 1.5 and for some reason comments are turned off at the moment. Strange, 1.5 is very nice indeed, and the upgrade went so smoothly. I think it is my custom theme that is causing the problem. They should be back soon.
Here is one (potential) redesign. The motto will have a different and better font eventually. Feedback welcome
It is now three years since I’ve been blogging, and four months since I’ve lived in Hawai’i. When I concentrate on the ‘three’ in three years, this blogging thing seems a lark, but when I focus on the ‘years’ I’m a little proud that I’ve been able to keep on going this long. The blog [...]
“A new body, at last…” these immortal words ended “The Keeper of Traken”, one of the final episodes of Tom Baker’s tenure on Dr. Who. Spoken by Anthony Ainsley in his first lines playing The Master, they signal the return of the Doctor’s greatest nemesis in a plot-arc that would provide the hinge between the [...]
Ok the permalinks go to alex.golub.name now and the sidebar links actually function. Also my house guest has now left so I have some free time to blog.
Well the shields are down, and the photon torpedos inoperational, but the dilithium crystal chamber is still intact. I’ll be spending the rest of this week bringing the warpdrive back up to speed, but as you can see the life support systems are still holding together. We’re in rough shape right now but things will [...]
I’m redesigning this web site. When I first got started, almost three years ago, I installed Gray Matter in order to experiment with the creative writing that I had given up when I entered graduate school. I quickly found out that returning from the field was hard — many of my friends were no longer [...]
I was locked off of Word Press for the last two days for a stupid reason. Now I am back on Word Press and will start blogging again. Huzzah!
It was the same old url-forwarding frame problem. Now all is well. Comment away!!