Category: Blogging about blogging

Promoted

So I make it a point not to blog about work much, lest I be dooced or otherwise draw the wrath of the drama demons. But I figure this is worth mentioning, since it’s kinda big-

I am now Security Team Lead at work. It’s a big fancy title, with the responsibilities and abilities to be blamed for more stuff that come with it.
Quite obviously I’m excited – it’s nice to be moving up in what I anticipate to be my career field. But overall, it is big and intimidating… I have a lot to learn. But it’s probably like learning to swim: the best way to learn is to be thrown into the lake and be forced to learn, and learn quickly.
So w00t? w00t.

I also just upgraded to the latest version of WordPress, my blogging engine… And I must say that I can’t believe what passes for a stable release these days. It’s buggy on my end, writing posts and stuff… the WYSIWYG editor is missing images, so I have to handcode if I want to format anything… and a lot of the scripts are still really buggy. 2.1 came out of beta way too early, and I’m not the happiest that they passed it off as stable. Usually I’ll trust Open Source stable builds, since they’re community edited and quickly patched.
But for the 93% of you who aren’t Alan, all this means for you is that there is a possibility that something might not work right. Like viewing from Xanga or something. 
UPDATE: I was an idiot, and blamed WordPress for something that was my fault – it’s called clear your cache. F5, stupid, F5!
(This I discovered after a couple of hours restoring backups, messing with FTP servers, merging old files… And it was all a tiny browser issue! Avast!)

Political Blog Survey

Hi, all-

My blog is being researched as part of a study on political blogging at the universities of Kansas and Wisconsin. I don’t consider the majority of my entries as political, but there is the occasional political entry. The more recent half of them are categorized here,  if you want a refresher. I guess they want a cross-section of 100% political blogs, as well as personal ones that address politics occasionally.

The researchers would like me to post a link to a reader survey on their site. If you’d like to help them out, please take the survey. It’s a little long- it took me 10 or 15 minutes – but it doesn’t ask for any personal information, just statistics, politics, and “rank how much you agree on a scale of 1 to 10” questions.

A quick note: they want to know which blog you are coming from. They initially got in contact with me when my blog was titled “Estimated Prophet,” so you will need to use that name.

No IE. Do I care? Not really.

I just looked at my site in Internet Explorer for the first time in several weeks (I’m on a library kiosk and have no other choice.)

It doesn’t display the entire sidebar and some entire posts in IE.

I don’t care, either. IE isn’t functional, and my site displays fine in Firefox and Opera, which are much more standards-compliant.

For the 32.7% of you still viewing this site in the most unsecure browser ever, get something else. You’ll do yourself a favor, and you’ll be able to view my blog.

(I’ll fix it for IE eventually. But only when I feel like it.)

Better move my blog, too.

I figured with all of that moving jazz that I’m up to, I should move my blog!

I haven’t touched the old ZekeWeeks.com since last summer, and don’t really like how static it is. I also killed the photos.zekeweeks.com database, and didn’t feel like restoring Coppermine (I think it’s kinda clunky), so I put a new photo gallery script in, and integrated it with WordPress. Maybe that way more people will look at it.

So, to summarize:

  • My blog is now at www.ZekeWeeks.com, so don’t go to blog.zekeweeks.com anymore, unless you like my witty redirect message.
  • I have a photo gallery availiable in the right-hand sidebar. You can also find it at http://photos.zekeweeks.com.
  • I’m that bored. Can I move into the dorms already?