Keep on Rolling Forward
Well, I've survived day 1 of 10 in the accelerated Hebrew course. That feels good. So far it is living up to the predicted time frame for study, but not exceeding it. That's good. It means I may keep my sanity after all.
In the mean time, my AT&T article over at OFB continues to plow away. It's showing up in more and more places, which is exciting. It's certainly the biggest piece I've written in half a decade and it is aimed squarely at becoming the most read OFB article ever. Count me as excited. I'm working on a follow up, trying to gather new material in what little spare time I have right now. Fun, fun, fun!
Abandon All Hope...
Tomorrow I begin a two week intensive Hebrew term. Somehow in two weeks, students are suppose to become masters of the Hebrew weak verb. I'm not entirely sold on this idea, but it is a required part of my degree, so come tomorrow I'll be trying to plow back through new parts of Hebrew… and thinking about Dante.
What a Day
Well, my article I mentioned last night drew quite a crowd. Slashdot, Gizmodo, DSL Reports and numerous others — including the AHN newswire — picked up the story. Gizmodo more recently has mysteriously pulled the story, but Slashdot is still in full gear, and the article looks like it should easily pass 10,000 reads on OFB before morning.
My SAFARI CMS withstood the Slashdotting quite well. How exciting!
AT&T's 3G Upgrades Degrade 2G Phone Signals
I thought everyone might be interested in my new piece for OFB on 3G network upgrades that AT&T is doing. The upgrades are causing moderate to severe problems on perfectly functional 2G handsets. The problem impacts everything from the basic, venerable Nokia candybar, with its legendary receiving power, to the original iPhone that was only discontinued seven months ago. Take a gander at the story right here.
A Good Start
The bug I caught a few weeks ago still has me moving slowly, but the New Year is off to a good start for me, I think. My parents, my uncle and I had a nice little party with a nice meal accompanied by a nice, friendly Wii competition.
Happy New Year, everybody!
The Last Post
Here is the last post of the year. I hope everyone has a safe and happy New Year's Eve. It has been an interesting year — not what I hoped, but not a bad year by any means. For what it is worth, my resolution for the new year is to improve my blogging frequency. What's yours?
The Star's Song
Go over to Erin Bode's MySpace page and listen to her second sample track, “the Star's Song” (you don't have to have a MySpace account, no worries). Bode is a local indie jazz musician, and I heard that song from her new Christmas CD on the radio the other day. The song is an original composition by Bode and her band. I think it is the first song I have ever heard from the Christmas star's perspective. It's worth your time, check it out.
Her Christmas CD is $18 over at ErinBode.com. I haven't heard the rest of the CD, though I'm tempted to order it.
Happy Christmas Eve!
Unwell Cleaning
Well, I seem to have caught some bug that's held me down the last few days — I even had to miss teaching Sunday School yesterday. I had a few symptoms for most of last week, but kept thinking it was allergies; apparently it was a bug of some sort that was just taking its merry time to attack.
It finally hit early Sunday morning. I think (hope) I am on the mend, but it has been a bit frustrating moving so slowly just a few days before Christmas.
On the bright side, I've continued to catalog my books (I now have 212 of my books in a computerized catalog) and I've sorted through about two years of unsorted papers from classes and put them in appropriate (real) file folders.
So, at least I can feel like I accomplished something, right?
Still Tweaking
How's the new look looking to you? I've adjusted my page navigation tool on top and added some Christmas cheer. Now if I could get done coding and actually post some stuff, eh?
Now With Multi-Page View
One of the major oversights in my initial design of SAFARI (my site's blogware) is that it could only show one page per category. So, given that each category shows the 10 most recent posts, anything older than the 10 most recent posts vanished. Now, I've added a search engine style bar to the top of every category page (including the front page) allowing you to move through all six and a half years of asisaid content, not just the most recent postings.
The new navigation tool is probably alpha grade, and I'd appreciate any reports of bugs you notice, but overall I think it is working well. Give it a whirl and let me know how it goes.
