Archive for January 3rd, 2006

First Impressions of WordPress 2.0

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

This is going to be a post which will be interesting only to fellow techno-geeks. So, I have placed most of it below the fold. If you aren’t a geek, feel free to pass this post up.

2006 Banished Words List

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

Lake Superior State University has released it’s list of banished words for the year 2006. Some of my favorites: COMMUNITY OF LEARNERS – A five-dollar phrase on a nickel-errand. Value-added into many higher education mission statements. “Not to be confused with ‘school.’â€? – Jim Howard from Mishawa, Ind. BREAKING NEWS – Once it stopped presses. [...]

Conversion to WordPress 2.0 Complete

Tuesday, January 3rd, 2006

This morning I converted the software used to maintain this blog to WordPress 2.0. The conversion was virtually painless, with the trouble coming from my mistake of uploading images as ASCII text. Most of the changes are under the hood in nature, so you shouldn’t notice any changes. One of the most noticeable changes is [...]