Kurt Groetsch @ OldTasty.com

Apparently I encountered some data corruption in the MySQL database that drives this site, because sometime this afternoon all my comments disappeared. I’d backed the site up at the beginning of February, but any posts made since then were lost (not that there were many, of course). It looks like they’re actually there in the […]

I use the Akismet anti-spam plugin for WordPress to keep comment spam from showing up, and it’s been doing a good job. However, I still have to review the comments that are held in moderation before deleting, just to make sure it’s not capturing an actual comment by mistake. The following are some of my […]

This has never been, nor will it ever be a confessional web site. I can barely stand my own attempts at traditional, private pen-on-paper journaling, and they eventually wind up gathering dust until I stumble across them months later and toss them in the trash, horrified at the linguistic and literary sins I’ve committed. However, […]

It started out as a simple upgrade from WordPress 1.5.x to 2.0.2. Then I started looking around for 3-column themes, one of which I really liked. Customization followed, and more customizations. And then some page edits. The net result: after 4 years of using the same basic template, I have an entirely new layout and […]

Operation Fixit commencing this evening.

It’s just around the corner, I can feel it coming on.

Even though I store all of my photos on Flickr, I sort of miss being able to display them on my own site like I used to (though I don’t miss the time I put in to hand-building those galleries). So I was intrigued when I stumbled across the FAlbum WordPress plugin, which uses the […]

Classes are kicking my ass and I don’t see that changing for a while. Which classes? Why, these classes:

LIS 501AL1 — Information Organization and Access
LIS 590DIL — Digital Libraries: Research and Practice
LIS 590II — Interfaces to Information Systems

I’d had a less technical semester planned, but because there’s now a good chance I’ll be moving back […]

As you’ll notice, I’ve given the site a bit of a redesign, pretty much because I just can’t leave well enough alone. I probably wouldn’t have done it under my old publishing system (Blogger), but my new WordPress CMS makes it so easy to switch back and forth between themes that I can revert back […]

I’ve spent the last week or so in Suzhou without access to an internet connection, and I haven’t missed it in the least. Because of this, however, I’ve been slow to post even the briefest of updates on my current trip to China. I’m also having a hard time posting photos to Flickr because of […]