This isn’t so much a podcast as it is an audio apology. I don’t have any ideas for topics today. Sorry.

My last podcast was all about the DIY movement, and I suppose this is a continuation of that. I’ve been building web pages since the early days of Tripod.com. My first attempts were the moderately ugly templates that free hosts often provide, but as I learned more HTML, Javascript, CSS code, and changed servers more times than I care to remember, I was able to do more customization. Now I’ve taken the next step and found a web host that gives me unlimited MySQL databases….Continue Reading “Academic Aesthetic Podcast 90”

After a few hours of mad panic, I’ve switched servers. Why? Because $7.95/month for 20 GB of space, unlimited MySQL accounts, and a terabyte (that’s right, a terabyte!) of bandwidth seemed too good to pass up. I’ll be leaving all of the old blogger.com stuff up because so many of you have linked to it, but from now on please visit academicaesthetic.com instead of academicaesthetic.blogspot.com. The RSS feed will remain the same, so you don’t need to worry about adjusting any aggregators like iTunes or…Continue Reading “Can everybody see me now?”

Good news: Today’s podcast is ready to go. Bad News: Both Big in Japan and Ourmedia won’t let me upload the .mp3. Is anyone else who uses these services having problems? This is what I get for using sites that are still in alpha testing.

I still want to move this site over to a more dynamic host than Blogger, but I don’t want to dive in head first without checking how deep the water is. I’ve heard very nice things about WordPress, but not every host will support it. Lucky for me it only took a quick search on del.icio.us to find something that would suit my needs … for now. You see, right now all I need is a sandbox to flesh things out. I’ve had others offer…Continue Reading “Adventures in WordPress”

Due to reasons apparently beyond my control, those of you using Bloglines to subscribe to my feed have been getting the “plain vanilla” version. This is because I asked the good people at Bloglines to fix an unrelated bug, and in doing so they created this problem. Since then they’ve proved less than helpful, but I do have a workaround. If you’re using Bloglines and you’d still like to see the extra things I throw into my feed (pictures and links), then simply subscribe to…Continue Reading “RSS Shuffling”

I’m looking at different survey services for an upcoming podcast, and I could use some help. I’ve created two short surveys (less than 10 questions) that are more or less identical, and would appreciate it if you took one or both of them. Please? Pretty please? I’ll be your friend… SurveyMonkey Survey Zoomerang Survey

I’m working on write-ups and/or podcasts for the PETE&C DEN event, really! But until then, I have something else to share. I was going through my site statistics to find out what kinds of websites are leading people here. Some of them are obviously just from people clicking on that “Next Blog” link at the top to see another Blogger blog (is that too redundant?), but others are nice to know or, at the very least … interesting. In a lot of these searches I’m…Continue Reading “Link Reciprocation”