It's been awhile, I know, but I'm working on getting some things done with the site. I upgraded to MT 3.34 and am in the process of deleting the forums (which dump ridiculous amounts of spam into my mailbox) and the photo album page that hasn't worked in 6 or so months. A more substantial update is in the works, but I have to head off to ECE Lab.
Some of you may have noticed, although I doubt it, that parts of the site haven't been working recently. To be precise, the photo album isn't working at all. I chalk it up to a server upgrade, but it could be something else. I'm trying to uninstall it, but it's being uncooperative. Will it make a reappearance? Possibly. Maybe not. Either way, I've been spurred by Greg's recent, yet incomplete, redesign to build a new CSS scheme, and that should be happening over winter break.
I found this online today and thought I'd give it a shot. It's a little disappointing to find that their sophisiticated searching technology came back with Helen Hunt and Andie McDowell.
Thanks to Jim Letournau for finding this site.
Thanks to Yepsen for sending me this. It's probably the coolest Flash animation I've seen. You'll have to watch it a couple times to get all the details.
While being a complete nerd earlier, I was thumbing through O'Guinnicus.com's web usage statistics for May and found something that was completely amazing. Apparently, if you search for "kimberly strassel" in Google, my rant about Jon Stewart ranks at an astounding number 7 out of the possible hits. Meanwhile, if you search "O'Guinn," this site comes up as result number 5. I'll never crawl out from behind the shadow of Thomas O'Guinn, Professor at the Communications Rearch Institute of the University of Illinois.
And on the 7th day, he rested. If only Scott would do the same. In his latest post, he opines:
I disabled comments because I hate comments. AND YOU.The "YOU" that he refers to is, of course, me. What's worse is that I extended the olive branch in my last post, saying in part:
Also, I like Scott Troyan. I'm just not in like with him.This clearly shows that I like Scott and meant only light-hearted disrepect by way of my last editorial. As it turns out, however, Scott Troyan is a bastard, and a bit of a tramp if you ask me.
Sure, his site is prettier than mine. Yes, it's true: my layout and color scheme is the Movable Type default. I've made one half-assed attempt to upgrade. Unlike the irredeemable Troyan the Younger, I believe the content and message should outweigh the design and form of a site. Bear with me through my bland layout, and I will show you the truth, my children. Scott is like the guy that has a big van and a bag of candy: he seems great at first, and hell, he's looking for his lost puppy. But get inside that van, and your ass is going to hurt come morning.
And one more thing, Scott. Don't you ever bring David Bowie into this again.
I edited the permissions on the album page so you don't have to be a registered user to see most albums.
Greg over at GregCJackson.com has added a blogging function that allows his site move up exactly one peg in my book. Now if he could only get a photo album that doesn't rely on Facebook.
Here it is, 4:00 AM. I've finally finished some slightly overdue Statistics homework, and I've just installed the newest O'Guninicus.com feature: a photo album! Go check it out and register. There aren't any pictures up there yet, but there will be soon enough.
My apologies to Carl Russell. In yesterday's first post, his name was erroneously left out of my list of thank-yous. Carl has done absolutely nothing, but in this day in age that is a commendable action. Thanks, Carl.
As any of you who I had beta test the last version of O'Guinnicus.com know, there is a substantial amount of work that is missing from the current version. In anticipation of graduating someday, I have decided to spin off the content that used to be on O'Guinnicus.com to a more profession-minded JamesonOGuinn.com. It's going to take a little work, but with time, I hope to make it an identity I can use.
Also coming soon is Betacrat.com, my new political blog. As soon as we get some server software updates, we'll install a community-making platform for that site. Anyway, check out the forums if you wish. And there, but for the grace of God, goes the Jameson.