psa

that feeling when

When my webhost upgraded something, at some point during the past year—probably the database underlying this WordPress installation—the upgrade rotated Unicode code points a notch or two, such that — displays as — instead of — = em-dash. Though I won’t clean up the old note-taking/event posts, a few pages I care about are queued […]

here a fitt ends

As of July 2016, I’ll cease to be Digital Publications Manager at the Mark Twain Project, UC Berkeley. (After eleven years, and by choice.) New challenges ahoy.

blown away

I’ve exported and reimported this blog in order to realign it with a webhost change. Now I know: many things survive the export process, but draft posts do not. I had five.  The overview of how users have been interacting with our beta site at work will have to wait, and half-written notes on others’ […]

rolling one’s own

Last redirect for awhile. (Welcome to the new site.) If you’re feeding off LiveJournal syndication, the link has been updated for you, along with the usual flood (sorry); otherwise, I think you want this. Me, I want to look into plugins and themes . . . . The change is thanks to the fact that […]

snap

Incidentally, I have not signed up to use Snap Preview. If you’re seeing little hovery annoyances, it’s WordPress’s fault. Fortunately, disabling Snap requires the storage of one cookie (mine says it expires in 2017); unfortunately, one can’t disable the “service” without unblocking their cookies (then reblocking at will). Anyhow.