I haven’t really felt like updating lately, although I have been saving some good stories to put in this space. Considering how little I’ve had to do these last few weeks, I’m not sure what the cause of my malaise is.

So, today I’m going to try to put up a few updates from the last few weeks. None of the stories are especially new, but I found them to be interesting.

My me.com account is working. If you don’t have any other addresses for me, the one below is as valid as any. They all end up in the same place eventually, anyway.

In other news, I spent a good portion of this weekend updating my blog’s layout. It’s quite a bit simpler and cleaner now than before. If you have comments or suggestions, let me know.

In the process of updating everything, I evaluated a couple of programs and plug-ins. I’ll try to make it a priority to write it up. (I actually evaluated something like four SQL tools because a plug-in I installed corrupted a few entries in the WordPress database, and I couldn’t access the damn fields any other way. Although I’m not planning on buying it because I don’t see it being a regular need, Froq was by far the best Mac SQL tool I tried, and if you’re looking for one give them a shot.)

I also went through and read through a lot of my older entries. For a while there, I was updating this site pretty regularly with some substantial updates. I’d like to try to get back into that. Newsvine has been a great diversion, and there’s a community there that is second to none, but I kind of miss trying to build my own thing.

Also regarding Newsvine, I finally found an easy way to integrate the stories that I seed there with the blog here. That was one reason I stopped updating this blog; I got tired of so many duplicate steps. I’ll probably write up a quick tutorial about it later, but the long and the short of it is to use the WP-O-Matic plug-in for WordPress. It’s not perfect by any means, but it’s the best tool I found that (sort of) works.

Ta.

So this whole updating the blog thing isn’t working out so well over the summer. Unfortunately, you would think a course title like Intensive Summer Greek that counts for two semesters of credit in a 10 week offering and with a course description that starts “Designed for highly motivated students…” that I would have recognized how busy I would be (or should be, if I were doing everything I really ought to be doing). Alas, school demands on my time always seem to hit me by surprise.

So. This just means that I have unfortunately not been able to invest the time in this blog that I would have wished even just 3 months ago. I’ve even unsubscribed from the vast majority of my blog and newsfeeds (down from about 80 to about 30, mostly low-traffic personal blogs of friends).

However, I am going to try to update moderately more often, at least once a week. This will probably occur on Friday or Saturday, starting next week. I hope to pull together a few news-clippings I hit upon during the week (despite my best intentions not to go browsing!), and throw together some “best of my internet” posts until the end of this course, now only 4 weeks away (!!!)

Cheers.

Today I’m more or less laid up in bed. This means I ought to be able to get some further work done on part II of my Immigration series. If you want to know what happened, take a gander at the flickr badge in the right pane. There are pictures there of my now awesomely oversized ankle.

Have a good day!

If you can’t tell by my weather widget in the sidebar, it’s an insanely nice day in Austin right now.

My roommate and I tried a new restaurant/bar, Shoal Creek Saloon. The shrimp and crawfish were very good, as were the cheese fries. I can see going back.

I’ve been looking for stories to post about, but haven’t yet found anything about which I have too much to say. And with the weather as it is right now, I don’t have a lot of motivation to just make something up.

Everyone be good, send me something worthwhile to read, and try to enjoy the Spring!

Okay, which of you yahoos loves me so much that he has to go and add me to favorites 65 different times?

So I’m back again. Although it isn’t set up currently, shortly demosthenes.us should point directly to this page. I decided that I would be happier on WordPress and happier with a domain that was mine, that wasn’t an assumed personality. There wasn’t really a point to doing so. And thus, here we are.

So welcome (again) to my online presence: davidvoegtle.net.

Needless to say, configuration and site changes are very likely over the next few days. Stick with me, and I hope to have it all worked out in the near future.

Well, I’m back; at least for a little while. I haven’t had as much time as I would have liked this Spring Break to catch up on the news and write some new posts. Moving on top of catch-up at work has really been a bitch and a half.

Oh well.

There should be some updates this evening.

I feel bad that I haven’t sent anything to you guys in a while. This weekend I am moving to a new place closer in to town and closer to school. I’ve had zero time to read the news, much less form some cogent opinions to throw up in this space. Sorry.

Updates to hopefully resume this coming week. Otherwise, Spring Break should offer me an opportunity to get some writing done.

I decided to stop using double-quotes within my blockquotes. I figure it’s probably redundant. Don’t sue me. I think the blockquote sufficiently indicates already that it’s not my writing. If you can think of a good reason why this is not the case, feel free to drop me a line.

Thanks