Feed Update

Those who are reading this by feed will note that I’ve made some changes to the feed. Pretty much all I’ve really done is splice in my del.icio.us links and my (neglected) Flickr stream into the main feed. You’ll see updated links posted to del.icio.us, plus ay new photos that show up. One reason is that I sometimes have links I’d like to post and share, but which I don’t feel really have enough to say about to write about them. One downside is that they won’t, I don’t think, appear on the Livejournal mirror of the site, but I’m …

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Yay For Vanilla

I decided the other day to install some kind of forum software for my students’ use, and I was looking for someone free, easy, and somewhat configurable. Given that I’ve never installed a forum, or maintained a board, I was a little nervous about how setting it up, but I went off and downloaded a copy of Vanilla and spent about five minutes setting it up, about half an hour grabbing some extensions and prepackaged themes and styles for it, and about ten minutes setting up those, and now I have a functional discussion board on my website. (Not this …

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