Thesis Blog
I’ve been spending the last couple of weeks working on a my thesis presentation, which is due tomorrow. Afterwards, hopefully I’ll have a chance to catch my breath and write some more…
In the meantime, I’ve got a thesis blog (A Sustainable Train of Thought) up and running here: http://www.d4v3.net/blog
It’s partly a brain dump, but also partly a way to externalize and expose my work and progress to the rest of the world. Nothing ground-breaking just yet, but some cool stuff (Thesis Proposal! Background Research Chapter! Thesis Presentation!) will be going up in the next week or so.
The thesis blog is running under WordPress, which, after some initial concern, was actually pretty easy to set up. The only tricky part involved a problematic .htaccess file and general permissions funkiness, but I worked around it and everything seems to be working fine right now. Editing the style-sheets and getting everything together was all-in-all pretty painless.
I’m actually considering shifting everything from this blog (hosted on Blogger.com) over to a WordPress platform—doing so would put everything under my control, and the customization aspects are much more user-friendly and robust than what I’ve found so far in Blogger (rebuilding the blog each time can get painful, but in WordPress there is no rebuilding, as changes are available immediately). Plus there’s cool stuff with trackback and searching. Hopefully I can use it for content management (I have WAY too many bookmarks, for example) as well as a platform for displaying my work and progress.
OK, back to the thesis presentation…