Yeah, this time around … I skipped the 2.0 release cycle here and waited for the inevitable .0.1.

Holler if things are broken for you.

I’m really loving the linkdumping via del.icio.us. It’s lightweight, and a few times, I’ve added links to it that I might have come here to put together a short paragraph about just because, well, del.icio.us does the heavy lifting for me.

The only complaint I really have right now is that the datestamps are set in GMT, but posts are made here in Central time … so the link dates are all foofy. Bad ju-ju. I’ve reset del.icio.us’s XML-RPC bot to spit stuff out at 0900 GMT every day, which will always be in the middle of the night here, at a time when I’m almost guaranteed to be in bed and asleep. That seems like the perfect time for a bot to do its dirty work—when I’ve got clean edges on either side. [I sometimes wonder if stuff I post after 2200 will make it into the nightly dumps. No, I'm not kidding.]

Yes, yes, I’m neurotic. This is news?

For the nearly-five [!] years of IJSM, the name of this site has been “The Indiana Jones School of Management”. I’ve become increasingly aware, though, that naming it as such is a bit, well, impersonal; people either end up here looking for “Indiana Jones” or “Management Schools”, and this is, well, neither of those things. I’m happy with where this thing is going—I’ve not ever seriously thought of chucking it—but it seems important to me, for whatever reason, to take a little ownership of it.

Well, I know what the reason is, and it’s a case of tools influencing me. The tipping point for me today was looking at the entry touting the narrative shift change over at Dan Benjamin’s Hivelogic, a Weblog I read for a while, but stopped reading—probably partially due to Dan’s use of second-person narrative. As I was following Dan Cederholm’s rabbit trail to the Hivelogic paradigm shift, it suddenly hit me: everyone comes up with these cool little site names, and I quickly shift them back to people’s names when I add them to FeedLounge. For example, Hivelogic is titled “Dan Benjamin’s Hivelogic”, which tells me both the name of the writer and the name of the site.

I’m not wholly consistent in doing this—I’ll admit that I’ve gone too far in forcing a name-only convention; I’ll repent—but I really seem to like it. And so I present you … Geof F. Morris’s Indiana Jones School of Management.

[So meta, it hurts.]

Well, we’ll see how sucktastic this turns out to be: I’m leveraging del.icio.us’s ability to pass along your links via XML-RPC to your XML-RPC-aware logware of choice—mine being WordPress—to push my del.icio.us links here. I guess this means I should start putting more commentary in my links. :sigh:

First dump should happen at 2300 local tonight. Here goes nothin’! [Oh, and it's thanks to this HOWTO on dumping your del.icio.us links into WordPress, which is missing one key component: in Step 3, you'll find the Experimental section only if you're editing your settings. Well-written HOWTOs are, indeed, hard-to-find---mainly because they're hard-to-do!]

Like most any user of WordPressDash, I have to tell you that this is the first post made with it. It’s pure goofiness to do so, but … oh, what the hell … it’s the Internet.

I will now leave the house, set off the alarm, and forage for food. When I come back, the alarm will be my bitch…

After reading Alex’s entry about page titles, I’ve flipped the wp_title() and the bloginfo() callouts on my single-entry template. The title will now appear first. On this entry, it will be: Page Title Inversion @ The Indiana Jones School of Management. I think that works better.

Note that wp_title() has a default separator of » that will trip you up if you don’t know it’s there, and the separator shows up before the post title. [Not good, I say!] If you put make it wp_title(”), though, you won’t have a separator at all. You’ll need to hardcode a separator between wp_title() and bloginfo(), though.

I just activated my invitation to WordPress.com: Geof’s Relentless Kvetching About WordPress. If WP-related entries have been noise for you, then good; if everything else here has been noise for you, then good as well.

If you think this whole place is noise, well … I’m not making you read it, am I?

Thanks to the urging of Mike Escutia, I’ve added previous and next links, both pages and entries, to my templates.

I’d been meaning to do that for a while.

Three years ago, I joked about doing the Blogathon. This year, I’m not joking. I’ll be supporting Blood:Water Mission, which is seeking to bring HIV-free blood and clean drinking water to Africa.

I jokingly suggested this the other day on the Rumor Forum, and then … I just felt like I shouldn’t be joking about it. I fired an email off to Derek, and he told me that he’d support me. Derek’s been working with Blood:Water and raising money for them out on tour for some time now.

I would appreciate your support for Blood:Water, whether you donate through the Blogathon campaign that I’ve set up or directly on your own. If you do feel like you want to support me in this, do so with a link, some fun IMs while I spend next Saturday on a posting spree, and whatever other ways you can think of.

At least 48 posts in 24 hours? I can probably pull off 60. I’ll start my research this weekend so that I have some links at the ready for my perusal and postage when next Saturday rolls around.

I was doing some SQL cleanup this morning, and I probably shouldn’t have been. :sigh: Anyhow, I seem to have broken the site for Web consumption, but if you’re aggregating, you see the content.

I’m working on it.

I really hate comptuers.

Update: I fixed it. I’m an idiot.

As I just noted on [rocksmyfaceoff.info]—where you can always check to see if I know the site’s down, rather than sending me an email, IM, or calling me on the phone —I’m going to hold off on the backup-reload-restore process if the datacenter’s NAS backup isn’t online by 6:00 p.m. tonight. I want to have a day to do this, and I really don’t want to kill my weekend over this.

I’ve got other things I’d like to do and, well, have to do this weekend. Chief among them:

• I’ve got to put together Part II of my summer SGA training session. Part I was a smashing success, and I have Part II on Monday. I’d like to get started on the presentation tonight if I can, because I’d like to build it tonight, then review it tomorrow with new eyes. [The payment for these training sessions is just about coming down to a mortgage payment. I like that. I'll like it more if I get to do this again in the fall and get paid for it again---I'll have laid the foundation for what I want to do, and I can also expand further on the two sessions I'll have done.]
• I want to take some “before” photos of the house. I’m contemplating a house-blog as I work on stuff. I spent some time last night working out things in my head about how I want the place to look when I’m done with it.
• Before I can take photos, I need to clean up some, as well as do some laundry.
• Take some time and pray to Jesus, thanking Him for fixing my air conditioner. There’s no rational explanation for a low Freon situation suddenly, um, resolving itself without evidence that anyone actually, you know, filled up the Freon. Right now, I’m sitting at my desk, and I’m cold. That just doesn’t happen in my world!
• Do that whole church thing.

So yeah … they have four hours to get on the ball. I remain pretty unconvinced.

The server I lease was compromised by a spammer last week, and I was never able to resolve it. Late Monday night, my datacenter pulled it offline to do some investigation. Unfortunately, the abuse folks and the security folks didn’t talk well right away, and … it took me calling twice today, the second time waiting until the guy on the phone was totally able to confirm that someone in security was looking at the server right then, to get it resolved. Frustrating, but like I told the guy on the phone: I’m a government contractor, and I know that sometimes there are “communication inefficiencies”.

[I actually said that ... and I'd never heard it before. I really am becoming a management drone.]

Anyhow … I apologize to all of you who got sucked down with me, and I want to let you know that we’re monitoring the box right now, and we could go back down if we catch the exploit in progress again.

Single entry pages now exist. Gone is the clattering clutter of the sidebar; in its place, simple post metadata.

Happy am I, even if I just now realized that it’s 00:20. I could’ve sworn it was like 23:15. Yeesh! Time flies when you’re twiddling, I reckon.

The presentation of the metadata will undoubtedly evolve, as I can never leave anything alone for any extended period of time.

I like the basic look I have with this layout, but there are lots of things in the Themes world that I’d like to mess with, many of them related to what information appears in the sidebar. So, over the next … however long it takes me … things are going to change.

Should be … interesting.

I’m shocked that I’m doing this four years later. Appropriate that I, with my share of Irish backgrounds, would have unwittingly started this on St. Patrick’s Day. Oh well, Morris men are prone to putting such things on notable days; after all, my parents did get married on D-Day.