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Erin and Madelyn are in Colorado visiting Aunt Dee with Erin’s mom. So I’m trying to make the most of my solo time. Today, however, is a bit of a day off.
I ran a 5K this morning: 22:10 (7:09/mi) which is a personal best. Flat course, no wind, and decent weather. After I returned home, [...]

Great idea, awful URL:
http://www.nyc.gov/portal/site/nycgov/menuitem.c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0/index.jsp?pageID=mayor_press_release&catID=1194&doc_name=http://www.nyc.gov/html/om/html/2008a/pr229-08.html&cc=unused1978&rc=1194&ndi=1
216 characters. And I thought C|Net was bad. A redundant alphabetic processional:

portal/site/: in case the server forgets it’s a web site?
nycgov/: isn’t the nyc.gov domain enough to indicate that?
c0935b9a57bb4ef3daf2f1c701c789a0: sessions should not appear in the business part of URLs, but as variables. And 32 characters for a unique identifier? My math shows [...]

Budget cuts at Florida: $47M. Enrollment too. Still not as bad as WVU’s fake degree…

Jeff Atwood has a good post about WordPress and database optimization. I’ve often wondered why Dreamhost doesn’t tweak their “oneclick” install to enable select plugins. Certainly, in a shared hosting environment, addressing optimization would seem to qualify.
If as a commenter suggests suggests there’s a Google SoC project for this, good.

Waiting to get a new ultraportable laptop

Grief, relief, and guilt about the shootings at Northern Illinois U

Happy Valentine’s Day, everyone. Madelyn celebrated with PINK GRITS!

I was part of Western’s MLA interview team this year. I’ve heard a lot of people complain about interviewing, but I really enjoyed it, in large part because it went so well. It didn’t take Alice, Amy, and I long to settle into a groove, and most of our interviews turned out to be conversations [...]

I cancelled my classes this week on Wednesday to deal with a cancellation of sorts. Thursday I found out one of my Spring classes is being cancelled. A Friday meeting which I planned extensively for was cancelled. Today we were going to fly to Connecticut to visit my grandfather, but our flight was cancelled, and [...]

Still some work to do this semester, but I’m already thinking about the break. We aren’t traveling, so I’ll be able to knock a few things off the do list. Such as:

start running seriously again
develop accessibility testing protocol
read like a madperson
update spring syllabi
install two replacement windows
continue painting the exterior (weather [...]