Category: Personal

So we’re back from the Disney extravaganza, and it looks like the blog has been killing comments again. Spam Karma 2 just isn’t working for my needs…it’s not allowing me to easily go back and retrieve comments it incorrectly marks as spam. So no more Spam Karma, and more me moderating things manually. If you’ve left a comment and it got eaten, please let me know.

Disney stories to come, along with enough pictures to choke a horse.

After 3 exhausting days, we’re still trekking through Disney. Today = morning in MGM, abusing the hell out of Early Magic Hours to ride the Tower of Terror and the Rock n Rollercoaster before anyone else got in the park. Dinner was in the Magic Kingdom at the Crystal Palace with the Pooh characters (my sister’s dream dinner) and then evening in Animal Kingdom on safari and getting soaked on the Kali River Rapids. Last night was Illuminations and Epcot.

All in all, another fabulous, exhausting day.

After nearly 9 hours of driving we arrived at the lovely Holiday Inn, St. Augustine Beach. The weather, not exactly cooperative, decided to be cool, windy, and cloudy as hell. We walked on the beach anyway.

After some local pizza, we’re turning in. Tomorrow = up early, quick visit to historic St. Augustine, and then onwards towards The Mouse.

…my last day at MTSU. Tomorrow will be the first day of my vacation, and hopefully more regular posting to the blog for a bit. I have a backlog of things I want to talk about: Shirky’s ontology discussion, more thoughts on authority as a measure of reliability in knowledge gathering, and more random pop culture reflections. But those will have to wait a bit, probably ’til after Disney. 🙂

Pics of the Mouse upcoming this week. Be ready.

Trish pointed out that my RSS feed seems to be broken, and I’ve spent some time trying to find out what’s going on without success. The actual RSS script is calling the database info and such, and should build the feed dynamically (as opposed to some software that builds the XML every time an update is done). The comments feed isn’t working either, but I tracked that to a link issue. The main RSS feed, when it runs, just generates a blank doc with nothing there.

Perplexing.

I can’t find anything in the WordPress Codex either. Anyone out there using WP with any ideas?

EDIT: So this is stranger than ever. When I checked the RSS at home, it worked fine. Here at work, nothing. I updated my .htaccess rules thinking there might be a rewrite issue in retrieval, but…well, it worked at home, just not here. I’m really, really perplexed.

Well, tomorrow morning I will be taking off for a weekend in the great Northeast. First to Providence, RI, then to Boston, MA to see Nine Inch Nails in concert, then finally down to NY/NJ to see friends and play games.

I’ve got no idea what my intarweb access will be like along the way, so if the blog is quiet for a couple of days, I’m not dead. Wish me luck!

As promised, the pics from the wedding and reception are up on Flicker, under either daveandjean or jeananddave…if everyone would use those two tags when they add photos, we could build a nice album.

Hope everyone from the wedding got home safely (hope you found your keys, Jesse). Keep in touch…I miss everyone already.

Back from Chapel Hill, and happy to be back in the wilds of TN. Photos from the amazing wedding will follow shortly (I’d like to suggest everyone, when throwing pics up on flickr, use the same tag so that we can find them all easily…how does “jeananddave” work?).

I’ll try to get pics up this evening, but wanted to take a moment to let everyone know how great it was to see you again. Patrick, Abe, Justin, Jane, Charles, Owen…we miss all of you! You should all come take a vacation in the mountains of Tennessee.