July 3, 2008 2:23 pm - I just nuked 223 comments that had been pushed into Akismet purgatory. Damn you, spamass roaches. My blog is not a dumping ground for your link garbage. Even the ones that were obviously manually written by a genuine Human Being - if you use a product name as your own, you're a spammer. I have a zero tolerance policy. If it even remotely smells of spam, it gets nuked.

June 6, 2008 1:59 pm - twitter's down for maintenance, and the collective productivity of the edublogosphere shoots through the stratosphere for an hour...

June 5, 2008 9:31 pm - I'm finding myself pleasantly surprised by how much I love my photographs lately. Not in a self-congratulatory narcissistic way, but in a "holy fracking shyte! I can't believe that I took that shot!" I'm definitely having fun with photography, and need to find more time to play :-)

May 25, 2008 3:08 pm - It rained almost nonstop the entire time we were at camp. The kids all had fun, though, and that's all that matters...

May 23, 2008 3:33 pm - dropping offline now, likely until Sunday evening. Heading out to the year-end camping trip with the Beavers, in an area forecast for solid rain the whole time... hoping the evil spammers don't infest my blogs while I'm gone...

May 3, 2008 9:00 am - had to disable "allow notifications from other blogs (trackbacks and pingbacks)" because of the sheer volume of trackback spam that was getting through Akismet. Thanks for escalating the arms race, frackers.

April 25, 2008 2:42 pm - New books purchased today: J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone (to read with Evan), John Szarkowski's The Photographer's Eye, and Frank Warren's compilation Post Secret. Looking forward to reading every page of each book.

April 24, 2008 12:17 pm - still struggling to find a way to properly represent a complex hierarchical taxonomy along with paired year data in Drupal, to do something like allowing a contributor to specify that someone received a UBC: Bachelor's Degree: Bachelor's of Science: Zoology in 1998 - in such a way that I could use the UBC, Bachelor's, BSc, and Zoology levels of the hierarchy, as well as the year. It's not just a simple Taxonomy vocabulary because the year pairing throws it off... It's not just a simple CCK field, because it needs to be more flexible...

April 23, 2008 3:09 pm - AsideShop should be able to provide some almost-Drupal functionality in WordPress. Without the content types stored in the database, and just at the presentation layer, but still this could be very cool for building websites where you want to display different bits of content in different ways. Could have different templates for podcasts, videos, presentations, blog entries, etc... Interesting...

12:20 pm - but, can asides be posted without having to enter anything the Title field? asides aren't big enough to need titles... Update: YES! No title necessary! It'll use the post ID in the slug, and looks like it works just fine. Rock.

11:54 am - I was missing riding my bike - having parked it for 2 days following the second freak spring blizzard of 2008 - so decided to ride this morning anyway. Fun, in parts. Not so much, in others. Slush froze into clumps of sharp, crunchy ice, making some of the road sections difficult. The paths were all fine, but some of the side streets were downright scary. Not sure if I'll be riding tomorrow or not...

April 22, 2008 10:58 pm - yeah. the flames choked. again. defense was stuck in third gear. offense was shaky. we got outplayed. again. "blue collar work ethic" only goes so far - you have to show up, too.

6:46 pm - I'm playing with a WordPress plugin called AsideShop - it lets you define a category to be handled as "asides" and provides a way to override the post display template so you can make them look however you want. The cool thing is - you can define post templates for each category on your site, if that kind of thing floats your boat. Very cool. But, I do need to figure out how to exclude items in the Asides category from the main site feed...

6:41 pm - Looks like I can write asides, which could live somewhere between Twitter tweets and full-on blog posts. Should be able to also have just an asides page and feed, too... Might have to think about the presentation of asides, and see if I can yank them from the main feed as well...

6:11 pm - really? asides? I wonder what those are...