DrBacchus' Journal

Tomorrow, after being out of school for 14 years, I'm going back to school. Sort of.

I'm going to be taking ENG 352, Creative Writing - Poetry, at my employer. This is one of the benefits of working at a college which I've never yet taken advantage of. I keep meaning to, and then getting busy and forgetting.

I've often thought that, if I had it to do again, I'd be an English major. So this is, in a small way, my way of doing that. I'm really quite excited about it, although it's also a little scary, going back to school after so long.

It looks like the Collegian now has someone on staff who believes in updating the website. This is goodness and light. I only wish they'd post all the articles, rather than just 2 or 3 of them. I'd especially like to see the letters to the editor online, with the possibility to have online discussion about them. It's also good to see discussion from the intranet site make it back into the newspaper conversation. It'll be interesting to see if, and how much, the two conversations feed one another.

I'm writing an article for the Collegian, our college newspaper, about the notion that what you say on your MySpace website is private in some sense. My sister posted a nice collection of links to articles about how such a notion is hogwash. Google is your resume. Deal with it.

Due to downsizing, I have been replaced by a very large pumpkin.

(I love my cow-orkers.)

After much pain and suffering, and much hard design work by Chris, and much coding by both of us, we rolled out new site today. I really like how it looks. And, even more importantly (at least, from my side of the shop), it completely retires any role played by Windows/IIS in our website. Up until now, it has been Apache proxying a bunch of stuff through to IIS, which worked, but was icky.

Now, with IIS out of the picture, and the need for dozens of icky rewrite rules out of the way, we can do some seriously cool stuff in the coming months. I'm really looking forward to it.