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Facelift

Chamberlain — Fri, 11 Jun 2010 06:14:52 +0000

The Chamberlain announces a facelift to the site. Full functionality has been restored, though some minor changes may still occur. Please notify the Chamberlain of any errors.

~ Chamberlain of Content

Testing Twitter Integration

Qwertz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 16:51:29 +0000

Once more trying to get WordPress to tweet my blog posts with URL-shortening by bit.ly. I think it will work this time.

Update: It works!

Sort of Back

Qwertz — Thu, 08 Oct 2009 08:45:38 +0000

I am sort of back from hiatus. Kind of.

I got the site updated to latest WordPress, something I’ve been meaning to do for . . . um . . . a year now? Also added Twitter to the right hand sidebar and fixed the Wishlist page, which broke on August 17th, 2009, when Amazon started requiring all Web Service requests to be signed.

I’ll be making changes to the Blogroll over the next few days. There are lots of places I want to add, and I want to add a category of frivolous fun sites.

Also, I made the site mobile-accessible. Actually, I think I did, and I did it a few months ago. It looks alright on my Blackberry Bold, but I don’t have any other phones with which to test it. I’d like to know how it shows on an iPhone, if anyone cares to test it out for me.

Still gone, but with a request

Qwertz — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 07:12:25 +0000

I’ve been so very busy. Graduating from law school, then preparing for the bar. The bar is in a week and a half (last Tues-Thurs in July) and I’m starting to feel the stress. I’m also just now in the middle of a house move which must be completed by the day after the last day of the bar exam, so that’s a bit stress-inducing there, too. So I’m still going to be gone for a while. I hope in August to get up to one post a week again, and we’ll see how it goes.

In the meanwhile, I need to figure out how to use this “twitter” thing. I have a username (some git already took Qwertz, so I got stuck with the terribly unimaginative Qwertz0 [that’s a zero]), but I need to know who to follow. So give me in the comments a big long list of interesting folks to follow on the twitter-o-blag.

Where Have I Been?

Qwertz — Mon, 08 Sep 2008 02:31:28 +0000

I have been busy. Very busy indeed. First, I spent much of the summer working for a local judge. I can’t tell you which one. It was a wonderful experience and I got to work on a variety of cases. Classes started two weeks ago and I am getting back into the swing of things. I recently applied for a job with the Federal government: as a judicial clerk. It’s highly competitive. I do hope I get one.

So I’ve managed to neglect my blog for most of the summer, which was not my intention. Now that I am back on a somewhat less hectic and rather more regular schedule, I hope to be able to make at least one post a week about something interesting. There’s so much to talk about, and so very little time.

Rosebush Watch

Qwertz — Sat, 07 Jun 2008 17:44:35 +0000

I set up a camera to watch my rosebush. You can see a live picture of my rosebush here [Link removed because Rosebush Watch ended on July 1, 2008] or by clicking on the little rosebush sitting on the W in the header. The camera watches 24/7. If you’re lucky, you might catch me watering it some time.

Sexvigintennial

Chamberlain — Wed, 07 May 2008 23:39:55 +0000

The Chamberlain Announces:

Qwertz will be celebrating his sexvigintennial a week from this Saturday. The wishlist has been updated.

~Chamberlain of Content

In Other News

Qwertz — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 20:01:10 +0000

I will shortly be making my gloriatial and spectaculary return to regular substantive blogging. I have much in the way of Yuletide dramatics to relate. Topics will include:

The Bhutto Assassination
My Sister’s Graduation
My Sister’s Job Interview
Families & The Holidays
Gift-Giving

I will also be cleaning up all these half-finished movie reviews.

Hiatuses

Qwertz — Tue, 13 Nov 2007 01:25:12 +0000

I am happy to announce that the unplanned, unannounced hiatus on which I have been for the past week or so is finally over! Excitement!

Unfortunately, the planned, announced hiatus on which I am now going has only just begun. Unfortunate!

The last few weeks of the semester are at hand, and will be followed inevitably and diabolically by the extremely unpleasant exam week. I’m sure there are fives, maybe even tens of you out there who have missed me this past week, and, alas, you shall all just have to go on missing me for a while longer. Woe!

I shall see you again on the other side!

Update: The timing of these hiatuses with respect to the WGA strike is purely coincidental. Don’t confuse my motives for hiatusing with this nonesense.

Update 2: Okay, well, by “hiatus,” I mean “sort of hiatus; don’t expect anything, but that doesn’t mean I might not post something occasionally.”

Further Hinkiness

Qwertz — Thu, 25 Oct 2007 23:57:44 +0000

Netflix has gone and done something wonky that messed up the Netflix widget and broke the site for a while. Lovely if(isset($var)) statements have fixed the problem, but the queue still doesn’t show. At least, not from where I’m sitting. It might be a magpie issue. Your cache may vary. Either Netflix changed the format of the RSS feed with my queue in it, thereby messing up the regular expressions the Netflix widget uses to extract pertinent movie data from the feed, resulting in a null set of results, and which will require actual work on my part to fix, or my cache simply contains an anomalous empty copy of the feed, again resulting in a null set of results, but which will resolve itself in due time. Either way, failure of the widget to set the necessary variables will no longer break the entire site like it did before.

Update: Everything is back to normal now. Please let me know if anyone sees any further misbehavior of the Netflix widget.