December 30, 2006
Foreign perspective ::
meta — tagged buffalo, family, meta and weblogs
5:24 pm
My parents have been hosting a foreign exchange student from Sweden for the past few months. Nils is his name. Nils has a weblog, on which he’s been posting various stories of stay in the United States. This means that there are stories about Buffalo, my family, and of course, me. I don’t speak Swedish, so I have no idea at all what he’s writing about. Further, I can scan at least one post about Christmas and see my name come up a few times. It makes me a little nervous, I guess, but my show-offishness wins out, so really I don’t mind. (I just want to know where the link to my site is!)
In any event, I guess I’ll have to get used to the reality that I’m no longer the sole Internet voice for what goes on in my family. Ultimately that’s probably a good thing.
December 4, 2006
Runaway Flickr hit ::
photos — tagged flickr, meta and photos
10:57 am
So, I posted one of my photos to the Quote Abuse Flickr group, which I found through my del.icio.us links. Quote Abuse gained substantial popularity over the past few weeks, likely due to this Boing Boing post. So, I noticed this morning that the photo I posted had 1,042 views since I first added it to the group’s pool—by far it has become the most popular shot I’ve ever taken. And I mean ever.
October 8, 2006
New about ::
meta — tagged meta and personal
8:58 am
Something I’ve never been very good at: talking in an open-ended way about myself. Nonetheless, the about page for this site was in severe need of updating (it’d been more than two years since the last!) so I posted this. I found the exercise valuable, though, because it gave me a real sense of how much things have changed since June, 2004.
September 26, 2006
Transferred ::
meta — tagged meta and webost transfer textdrive
11:24 pm
Ok, so if you’re reading this then it means that your DNS records have updated and you’re at the new version of the site. I’m now set up over at Text Drive, which I have to say is pretty awesome so far—with the combination of terminal and web admin controls, I’m able to do all the stuff I ever wanted to do at my other hosts but had to beg for (why is it so wrong to want to edit your files with Vi?). And the best part is that I don’t have to hound any administrators to get what I need. So if things continue like this, I’ll happily stay here indefinitely. Or until I’m asked to leave. Hooray, progress!
September 19, 2006
Added tags, moving on ::
meta — tagged hosting, meta, tags and tech
2:27 pm
Well, thanks to the Ultimate Tag Warrior plugin, this site now has tags. I found that I was having a bit of category creep, which you might have noticed from the ever-expanding list of categories on the left. I have plans to consolidate many of those categories under single general headings (e.g., the legal category will take over for all the other law-oriented categories) and then use tags to categories some of the more specific like crime, con law or—oh, man—tort reform).
In other site-related news, I’ll be switching hosting providers in the next week or so, so regular readers should plan on some of the sketchy web presence that comes with the attendant DNS transition. Unfortunately, this site was inaccessible all Sunday—who knows why—and my log files seem to disappear from time to time without any explanation. That, combined some extra free time I’ve had lately, suggests that the time is ripe to try another hosting provider. Oh, what fun!
September 12, 2006
The bar exam stress index? ::
meta, personal, legal — tagged legal, meta and personal
10:05 am
So, I was looking at my site usage stats this morning, and noticed a pretty clear pattern emerging. Of the top 20 search terms that resulted in links to pageswithin.com, I found six that had something to do with the bar review or the July bar exam: “july 2006 bar exam results,” “pmbr lawsuit,” “bar exam results july 2006,” “pmbr,” “bar exam blogs,” and finally, “bar exam results.” That’s kind of surprising, since I really didn’t post all that much about my bar exam experience.
But then, to be fair, I didn’t post all that much generally to this site during that time.
March 6, 2006
My first WikiPedia article: Tapes ‘n Tapes ::
meta, music — tagged meta and music
5:01 pm
You can go over to Wikipedia and see my first attempt at creating an article. It’s for Tapes ‘n Tapes, a hot new band out of Minneapolis, which I, along with Pitchfork Media, have enjoyed quite a bit lately.
Of course, Jessamyn helped tighten up the article quite a bit. Here’s hoping it stays for a bit before getting marked for deletion.
January 30, 2006
Bloviate ::
politics — tagged judges, legal, meta and politics
6:37 pm
Jessamyn noted in my previous post about the Alito confirmation that both New Donkey and Bull Moose use the word “bloviate” in their posts. I hadn’t made the connection myself, so it was more than a little weird when she called my attention to it. (My first instinct was that I screwed up and just posted the same pullquote twice—thankfully that wasn’t the case.) Anyway, I was curious to get a more precise definition, and found this from Dictionary.com word of the day: “[t]o speak or write at length in a pompous or boastful manner.”
That pretty much sums up what I was saying before, I think.
