September 7 2008 @ 8:34 pm
After months of delays, false promises, and distractions, Unschooled is back.
Since I last posted, dear reader (readers, even?), much has happened: I graduated from engineering school, started my first full-time job, and moved into a new apartment. There was more, of course, but this site has never been about the nitty-gritty details of my life, and just because I updated the banner graphic does not mean that is about to change.
For the curious, the resurrection of Unschooled was delayed in no small part by the fact that I spent more time geeking out than getting the site back online. I switched hosting providers twice — from bluehost to VPSLink to Slicehost, where the site currently resides. I switched web servers twice — from Apache to nginx back to Apache. And I switched blogging software three times — from WordPress to Byteflow to Movable Type and back to WordPress, albeit a newer version. Needless to say, none of this was actually necessary in order to get the site back up and running.
So, despite my best efforts, the site is back, to which I can only say,
Welcome back.
posted by Nicholas ⋅ 1 comment » ⋅ tagged meta, redesign
August 28 2007 @ 7:32 pm
Even the exceedingly dull reader will note that I have made some changes to the site. The most obvious of course is that I’ve goofed around a bit with the site’s general look, for no reason other than that I had a lot of important things to get done, and so I needed a way to delay doing them. Dinking around with Unschooled’s CSS proved to be a nice distraction, and as a bonus I can even feel mildly accomplished because I have something to show for my effort. A special thanks to Six for helping sculpt the new look, and for debugging a few nasty CSS issues.
The slightly more subtle change is that I’ve integrated Twitter using Twitter Tools by Alex King. This means that whenever I post to Twitter, a post on Unschooled will automatically be generated. Similarly, if I post a new entry on Unschooled, a link to it will be posted to Twitter. (Thus if you want to always be the first to know when I post a new entry on Unschooled, you can start following me on Twitter.)
These changes were made largely as an experiment. I have developed a hypothesis that goes something like this: Posting a blog entry — no matter how short — is psychologically heavy, while posting a tweet is very lightweight. Think e-mail (heavy — oh lord do I hate e-mail at the moment) vs. a Facebook wallpost (light — who doesn’t have time to post on his friend’s wall?).
The result should be a significant increase in the number of (very) short posts, and business-as-usual in terms of the frequency of longer posts.
Let’s see what happens.
posted by Nicholas ⋅ No comments » ⋅ tagged design, meta, random thinking, redesign
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