Ok, this has been bugging me for years now. Am I the only one that hears The Cure every time I hear or read the name Flickr? Flickr Flickr Flickr Flickr Flickr Flickr Flickr Flickr Here you are Cata cata cata cata cata cata cata cata Caterpillar girl At first I loved being reminded of this song all the time, because it has always been one of my favorites. And I want someone to dust my lemon lies with powder pink and sweet. After a while, though, it started getting a bit old. But last night I heard the original...… →

For the first article in my series about building the new HSU site with ExpressionEngine, I thought I’d write the compliment to my earlier article where I explained how I built HSU’s A-Z index with Textpattern. Setting up the framework The first thing I did was set up the framework: a weblog (EE’s name for a container for related posts) called “siteindex” with 26 categories named A-Z where I would publish the entries, and a template group also called “siteindex” with 26 templates named A through Z. Naming the template group and template pages in this way creates clean urls—...… →

So, I have been trying out Vox for a couple of weeks, and I have to say that I’m impressed. The interface is really nice, and makes it a snap to add photos, video, audio, and books to your posts. It also allows you to control who can see an individual post— you can restrict access to friends, family, or friends & family. This is the most important aspect for me— I have been finding that there are things I want to write about that are not really relevant to anyone but my family, and that I don’t want to...… →

Thank you John, for writing this. … →

I feel like I write posts like this all the time, but it’s part of the process for me. I am just now coming out of a major depressive episode that started sometime in March, before I went to SXSW. I haven’t been able to do much writing since then, and I’ve been a bad friend and family member as well. I owe apologies to a bunch of folks that I should have been keeping in better touch with: Jess especially, but also some others in places like Australia and England. I’m not going to go on much more about...… →

Just a quick announcement that I recently launched a redesign of the Humboldt State University main site. This pretty much explains most of my silence for the past month or two. The new site focuses on recruiting, which is a major goal of the university at this point, and has been in development for over 6 months. …