Gavan P.L. Watson
Oh hai! Metapost here!
I’ve decided that I’m going to work at adding a few more posts here and there that fall somewhere in between tweets and what has emerged as my approach to blogging here, which is distinctly longer form.
My macro-blogging posts meant I updated infrequently (having to build up my psychic energy). Tweets have [...]
So, it turns out that most people who have visited the homepage of this website since late May have seen the same homepage. Or, in other words, it would have looked like I hadn’t updated [...]
This morning I got an email letting me know that I had a comment on the blog ready to be moderated. I went to read it, and some of the most vitriolic words I’ve read on-line jumped from the screen. Since I published, and subsequently apologized for, a post that compared Stanley Tippett [...]
I’ve been the good boy that WordPress wants me to be and I’ve just upgraded to 2.6. It wasn’t without its moments, though. All the upgrade process went just fine, but when I went to log in to my dashboard–the backend of the blog–I was met with a message that said that my password was [...]
So far, so good. It looks real ‘purdy and I have a WYSIWYG html editor again (I had been doing all the posts for the last little while by hand-coding them–yeah, I know, poor me). C’est tout.
I’ve changed the permalink structure of this blog so that the URLs for each post make more sense to humans rather than machines. The only problem with this update is that any old hyperlinks to material on the blog are now b0rked. Given that I have a readership of me, it shouldn’t be too big [...]
I just installed a plugin1 that allows me to create footnotes in posts. Just testing the thing out here.
The plugin is WP-Footnotes [↩]
Just added a little script in the sidebar that lets you know what I’ve recently been listening to…gotta love content that updates itself…
Also kinda cool is the green arrows to the left of the track. Click on it, and you’ll hear a short sample of the song. Now you get to enjoy my bad [...]
So, I’ve managed to get my head around PHP and WordPress enough that I have a site design that I’m pretty happy with. I especially like the sidebar information and it’s ability to update without too much work. Much more interactive!
I’ve just added a “status” section to the sidebar. Right now, it’s adding recently listened-to music. We’ll see what else gets added.
In a perfect world, I would like to have a three column set-up for the page, with my personal status information on the left, posts in the middle and the blog stuff on [...]
About me
I am an education researcher and practitioner, with a focus on higher education and the environment. I consider myself, above all, a naturalist. I'm the pack-mate of two border terriers. I live within the Speed River Watershed in Guelph, Ontario. I enjoy photography. I lead nature tours across North America. I teach courses on Natural History. I likely spend too much time on the Internet.
Oh, and the opinions expressed here are wholly my own.
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