It looks like everything worked. I’m sure there will be some plugin/widget/theme details that break down, but it looks pretty good so far.

And the admin interface is suh-weet!

OK – now the nerve racking part. Deleting old files and replacing them. I had this explode on me last month so I’m hoping it goes a whole lot better this time around. It’s nice to have the backed up database and files just in case. See you on the other side.

Time to do the upgrade to WP 2.7. The new admin interface looks very shiny and bright. The new plugin installer allows for looking up and installing plugins from right within the admin interface will no doubt cause me to blow up my blog as I install reams of incompatable plugins. My FNF (favourite new [...]

I’ve just been reading Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach’s post Letter to my colleagues, and some of the ideas in there made me feel a little uncomfortable. My discomfort stems from some concerns I’ve had recently about some of the comments I’ve read on twitter and in various blogs. Maybe I’m imagining it – I hope I [...]

A thought struck me a couple of days ago, and I tweeted (twate?) it thus:

I was struggling to articulate what the problem was and, more important, find some way of teaching it in an appropriate way. “It” in this case is taxonomy, the bane of every biology student and, as I have [...]

As I mentioned in a previous post, one of my students said he would drink a milkshake made from his pants if their video (Energy Man) passed the 300 mark for views. Well, it did so he did and the whole sordid affair was recorded on video for posterity.

Watch here for any further [...]

I’m normally not a “did you see this cool video that {insert name of person here} blogged about?” probably because I assume that if you read this, you read all the other people I do on a regular basis. Maybe this is an erroneous assumption – I’ll have to give that some thought.

But this [...]

About a month ago, I showed my Flip camera to some of the students in the school’s video club. They thought that it was pretty cool, so I gave them the challenge to use the flip camera and put together a short video in one week, including time for scripting, filming and editing. They were [...]