I finished this a while ago, but wanted to make it perfect before I put it up as my real front page. Since it will never be perfect, and it basically works now, I figured I’d just put it up and get it over with.

It’s an egotist/javascript dream, and pulls stuff from all the online places I regularly put content, including my tumblr, twitter, delicious, and blog feeds. Everything should work, with the exception of the “Other Work” link up at the top, which has no page to link to yet. Everything will probably break as soon as one of these javascripts stops working. Expect incessant tweaking (If you, for some reason, were compelled to look at my personal site more than once).

In terms of real blog stuff, I do actually have some things to write about, and I am going to work on writing stuff here on a regular basis. That is, as soon as I’m done with the current crunch time of schoolwork.

So yeah, enjoy, if you needed to know everything I was doing on the internet at the same time, now you can.

I couldn’t handle Unity Blue, so I compulsively hammered away at a draft of the new design. It’s up on the blog pages now, and eventually, the main page will sport a similar look, but with more content.

Lucky you, getting to see all my layout drafts. If this was a real website, I’d be making all these edits secretly and unveil them on some special day. But this isn’t a real website, yet, so you get all this stuff. And two posts in a row about being under construction.

Sweet.

In anticipation of a site-wide redesign, I’m messing with the blog layout, so it’s going to look really ugly for a while. Of course, it will look more awesome than you can possibly imagine when I’m done with it. Or maybe I’ll lose steam and it will forever be stuck in “Unity Blue” or whatever this garbage is.

(yeah, I realize a site-wide redesign doesn’t make sense until there is a wide site to redesign. That’s part of the redesign. Making a real site.)

When I started this blog, it was going to be something to help me learn HTML and keep me motivated to work on various edifying activities. Even with the long gaps in posting (last entry July 28…), I think it succeeded in that, for the most part.

There’s not a whole lot to add about what filled out the rest of the summer; it was more of the same, and some of the different (first trip to Cape Cod, other assorted excitements). School technically started three weeks ago, although real classes and so on have only been on for half that. Classes have been great (thanks for asking), and my work as a research assistant with Project New Media Literacies has been engaging.

So, this isn’t intended to be a post-mortem analysis of how well I did what I set out to do in my first post, but rather a change of gears. Grad school is astronomically more work than bumming around for the summer with a blog, so it is possible that post volume might go down, if that were even possible. However! Thanks to all the work I’m doing, I’ll have more frequent things to share, including blog posts written for other blogs (they should have looked into my blogging track record before asking me), and various reflections and announcements related to my busy and soon-to-be-more-busy life.

I need to sit down and figure out what I want this space to be, and that should hopefully happen soon enough for me to start yakking about all the wonderful things (and presumably some less than wonderful things) that the school year brings. At the very least, I’ll clean up the dead links and broken formatting in the sidebar and maybe even toss in a CSS redesign (which will be refreshed as a result of our Workshop class, where we will learn such things as Processing and CSS and Final Cut Express).

That’s it for now, stay tuned for more exciting tidbits, hopefully.

Just experimenting with some new technology to make me more inclined to post on this here blog.