IM with Mom

It’s interesting that since I’ve hooked my mom up to GMail, we’re in a lot more communication these days via the GTalk instant messaging client within GMail.  I keep GTalk running under my Jabber account within Pidgin, so it’s kinda like an always on mom. 

Thanks, interwebs.

300

CostPerNews jumped the big 300 mark this morning (finally!).

I wish I felt like blogging there more.

I want to move everything here, but that would be a huge pain in the ass.  Hmm… what to do, what to do.

Semester and Grades Are Done

Wow.

What a crazy semester of teaching, blogging, managing programs, consulting, fixing up a house and becoming a soon-to-be dad.

Anyway, one of those is now struck from the list as the semster is over for my Religious Studies 101 class.  All the grades are turned in, all the emails are answered and all the papers are read.  It’s amazing how quickly some things end, especially when you think you have so much invested in them.

Anti-climactic.

You can relive our semester at www.harrelsonreligion.com.  We had a good time, and went out Beatles style with a half played note at the end of Her Majesty.

Widgets and All That Jazz

I was reminded of this post in the feed reader today…

http://jeremy.zawodny.com/blog/archives/008547.html

Basically, Zawodny says widgets are bad because they are hard to skin, they might slow your site down, they don’t pass on value to search engines, they don’t work everywhere and they are not secure.

Hogwash.  You could say that about any online platform.  Widgets break down the html static pages and even blogs to a point where it threatens our own conceptions of ease.

Just look at what the MySpace generation has done with widgets and CSS.  Sure, there are some ugly MySpace pages, but that’s the future.

WordPress Error

Did I screw something up on CostPerNews?

Media_httpwwwsamharrelsoncomwpcontentuploads200705wordpresserrorpng_sfodacgrumbgbxl

I changed the theme but haven’t played with the wp-config.php file or localhost.

Any ideas?

EDIT: Nevermind… everything seems normal now.  Except the new CostPerNews design crashes IE7.  Sweet.