Well, that buzz is gone. The evaluations came in today, and killed what was left of it. Reality had pretty much already done the job by then, though. I am at a point where I am reevaluating a lot of things in my life, and this blog is one of them. I have found myself censoring my posts more and more, especially after publicly speaking on university web issues. The goal of this site was always to be a personal expression for all aspects of myself, even the parts that aren’t so pretty and aren’t geared toward finding myself future...… →

I have a question for all you university web pros lurking out there: if you were to somehow secure the resources to implement one enterprise-level project, would you choose a CMS or a portal? Lots of you out there have experience with one or both of these— care to share? …

I am once again master of my domain, having picked up a new one this weekend. I thought I’d let the cat out of the bag before Steve explodes. The inspiration came from Neal Stephenson’s Cryptonomicon, which I am about 3/4 of the way through reading, so no spoilers please. The following passage made me go into convulsive giggle fits on the plane. You’ve got to love anyone who can combine biological nerdery with a description of the protagonist lying on the floor after being punched in the face for trying to hit on a girl in a imperfectly understood...… →

I don’t know how it happens, but whenever I go to a conference, I come back 5 years younger. This lasts for a couple of weeks, before I go through an accelerated aging process and end up back where I started. But right now I have that post-cenference buzz (I don’t mean this post-conference buzz, but that one was good too…). I have so much energy that my head is spinning, so I needed to write this brain dump before I write a more serious post about the E-recruitment conference. Man, SXSW can’t come fast enough for me right now....… →

I am now home from the E-rectuitment Mastery Workshop, which was a great success. Thanks very much to the folks at LiquidMatrix and Noel-Levitz for organizing a great event, and for asking me to participate. Here is a pdf of the slides from my presentation, which I am releasing under a Creative Commons License. I’m not sure that the slides stand on their own very well, since I tend to not put a lot of what I’m saying on my slides, but you can get a general sense of the presentation from them. There was a good discussion after my...… →

This title was supplied by Brian, who very patiently listened to me go on about how my feeds were broken and I had no idea why. When I told him I finally figured out that it was because of some extra whitespace in my comments.php file, he said “That sounds like the punchline to a really geeky joke.” And it pretty much is. Anyway, my feeds are fixed. …