I’m a WordPress Partisan, so I agree with Mark Ghosh’s criticism of this Wordpress vs Drupal Report. Still, it reminds me that I should point out XXLmag, SLAM Online, and Ford among the very non-bloggy sites built on WordPress.

Posted November 14, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Dispatches, Technology. Tags: comparison, drupal, examples, web design, wordpress. One Comment.

Oh decadence! Veterans Day provided not only a chance for reflection but also a rare day free from the classroom. So what to do with this open period of time? The answer was easy, dinner party.
I have wanted to have my colleagues Roxanna and John over, but time is always an issue. I phoned them [...]

Posted November 12, 2007 by Sandee
Categories: Kitchen. Tags: avocado, avocados, dinner, fish, fish tacos, friends, Homemade, Meals, party, taco, tacos. One Comment.

All I know about Denmark is what gets imported: Legos, of course, but also a tradition of exquisitely clean and functional design. That’s why, as I prepare for my talk in Copenhagen later this week, I’m incredibly conscious of my own design and a bit jealous of Jessamyn’s outstanding use of orange.
Anyway, that’s where I’ll [...]

Posted November 12, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Style, Fashion and Food, Travel. Tags: anxiety, copenhagen, denmark, design, design anxiety, Travel. 2 Comments.

Connect the dots: Boys vs. girls in US colleges and too many men in East Germany.

Posted November 9, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Politics & Controversy. Tags: economic mobility, education, gender, male underclass. Be the first one.

There are so many cool things in Fred Stutzman’s recent post, but this point rang the bell for me just as I was considering the differences between World of Warcraft and Second Life. More on those games in a moment, first let’s get Stutzman’s description of ego vs. object networks:
An ego-centric social network places the [...]

Posted November 7, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: ego, fred stutzman, mmorpg, second life, social network, social networking, social software, world of warcraft, WOW. One Comment.

NPR : Back to School: Reading, Writing and Internet Safety
As students return to school in Virginia, there’s something new in their curriculum. Virginia is the first state to require public schools to teach Internet safety.

Posted November 6, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Blink, Libraries & Networked Information, Politics & Controversy, Technology. Tags: children, education, facebook, internet, myspace, public schools, safety, social software. Be the first one.

Derek Sivers‘ plan, with all it’s bin2hex and regexp and back and forth between MySQL and PHP almost looks good compared to what I’m about to do. Really, why is it so difficult to go from latin1 (tables created back in MySQL 3) to utf8? Not only do you have to set the charset on [...]

Posted November 5, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Technology. Tags: character set, encoding, mysql, utf8 conversion. 2 Comments.

How to pick up girls in the library. Indeed, it’s Picking Up Girls Made Easy.
girls, pick up lines, funny, advice

Posted November 3, 2007 by Casey
Categories: Blink. Tags: advice, funny, girls, pick up lines. Be the first one.