JVA Goodness
I have a test on Greek and Roman myth here in about forty-five minutes. I feel mostly ready, but definately not completely. I certainly don’t have the grasp on the material that Beth does. Then again, myth is Beth’s thing. She likes it, and she’s taken two courses on it plus another this semester as far as I know. She pretty much rocks the house without even trying at this class. Then again, I don’t hardly try either, but I could have a better hold on the material, regardless of happy test scores.
Yesterday, I spent an hour trying to upgrade WordPress. I have to remember that skipping an upgrade doesn’t help, but only hurts. Instead of doing one upgrade, I have to do two just to get the results of one. Basically, some templating stuff had changed from this version and I had to try and find the example template code on a Windows box. Findind this was damned near impossible, because Windows doesn’ recognize UNIX line returns so the code was a jumbled mess. I found it, though! Now I just have some tweaking to do.
I’m glad I upgraded, though. The new features are pretty nice. Entries now have individual post status as opposed to having a category that never gets published. Password protected entries. The ability to turn comments on and off for each post. Recent comments listed on the administrator page. Hot keys for HTML tags so that I don’t have to type them anymore; it actually knows when to open and close tags when the key is pressed. It’s like typing into a word processor. And, the greatest new feature of all: preferences are stored in the database and not in a configuration file! Changing stuff is a breeze now!
There is an extremely cute boy in the lab.
The International JVA Symposium on Modern Computing starts tonight. I’m going to try and go to opening ceremonies. There’s going to be a movie and Gordon Bell, from Microsoft, is talking. I believe he was behind the My Life Bits software Microsoft did, which was neat, but I don’t know if it ever got released. All of my classes are cancelled tomorrow so that I can go to symposium talks. There’s going to be a neat one in the afternoon about wearable computing and data mining. I’m not sure what else I may go to.