I really enjoyed this write up about The New Aesthetic, partly because I think Ian Bogost is funny, but also because he mentions a former prof, Tim Morton, whose Green Romanticism course still haunts me even though I have left … Continue reading
I have been using Git and Github for my work website for well over two months now. Mostly, keeping my files under strict version control has been very helpful and easy. Occassionally, I find myself staring at the dark background … Continue reading
Yep, the badges in the sidebar prove it! I won at writing. I only “won” by 50 words, but I still won. Which is just another way of saying that I’m happy to report that I managed to write the … Continue reading
I can’t believe that this is the fourth week of NaNoWriMo. Last week was a real struggle for me. I wasn’t feeling well by mid-week and didn’t write for a few days. Going into the weekend, I was sure that … Continue reading
Right now I’m at around 9500 words. My average per day word count is still about 600 words off. I managed to make up some ground last night be attending a write in at a local coffee shop. I was … Continue reading
I thought that since the first “week” of NaNoWriMo is winding down that I should give a quick status report. Unfortunately, the news is a little depressing. I’m 5 days in and have over 40,000 words left to write! In … Continue reading
I have wanted to participate in National Novel Writing Month for a few years now. Up until recently, I have had school and newborn babies on my hands–not conducive circumstances for blasting through a novel in a month. In fact, … Continue reading
I wanted to wrap my little “series” on the Atlas site before my life starts to get a bit more hectic. A few months ago, I felt unhappy with the way the Atlas pages looked and wanted to try to … Continue reading
For my first major iteration on the Atlas page, I decided to do the focus on the following things: Create a consistent and persistent site navigation Create a series of quicklinks to content Create a clickable map It took a … Continue reading
This screen shot (which actually came from the Internet Archive’s Wayback Machine gives you a pretty good idea of the state of the Atlas pages when I first encountered them. The Newberry’s stock header and footer are chopped out of … Continue reading