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In a slightly bluer mood…

Actually, I’m once again playing around with the layout here a bit. One of my regular readers and frequent correspondents mentioned to me that he had a very difficult time with the color scheme. I don’t know if this is a diagnosable usability thing or just an aversion to that khaki color, but I [...]

EMUTalk.org news: new look, social networking features

As you can probably tell, I’m playing around with a new “theme” here at around EMUTalk.org, mainly as the result of some technical problems I was experiencing with the previous layout and design.  There will probably be some more tweaking and revising as the summer goes on, but I’m happy to see at least [...]

Semi-vacation for EMUTalk.org this month

I say “semi-vacation” because I’m not going to completely turn the site off, nor am I going on an electronic fast of some sort, swearing off the Internets and computers for a month.  But I will be in and out of town a bit until the beginning of summer term, and June is probably [...]

A short break followed by a longer one; and once again, rarely is this site about Emus

I will be out of town at a conference starting later today, and thus not posting to EMUTalk.  Along these lines, I’m planning on taking a complete month off from the site in June.  No particular reason, and I don’t plan on taking a month long computer “fast” or anything like that, but [...]

Second annual NCAA Men’s basketball pool and the moral of the story from this year’s tourney

The second annual EMUTalk.org College Basketball Tournament Pick’em pool kind of ended in the form of a massive tie, mainly because all 10 participants picked either Kentucky or Kansas for the win.  Regardless of our collective lack of pick ‘em prowess, congratulations to MyBracket and Mehmet’s 2010, the tied winners at 63 points and [...]

Don’t forget! It’s March! It’s Madness!

So that means it’s time to pick your picks for the EMUTalk Tourney Pool for the NCAA Men’s Basketball Tournament. Go ahead! Sign up! You’ll be glad you did!

In this particular version of the pool, I simply let the computer pick the top seeds for me, but in a version that I really [...]

Thanks for the spontaneous fund-raiser, Aging Hippie!

Just wanted to give a shout-out to long time friend of the site, “Aging Hippie,” who I ran into today for the first time in what seems like months.  He reached into his pocket and handed me $20 toward the EMUTalk.org effort and I had it in my hand before I could even really [...]

EMUTalk.org news: Calling for contributors, sponsors

Regular EMUTalk.org readers will notice that there’s been some changes around here in terms of layout and such.  A lot of this is technical and is based on my long belated update in the wordpress software that supports this site.  I will spare you the details because the details are technical, but I wanted to share with you some exciting (I hope) ways in which this layout and the newest version of wordpress will enhance the user experience here.  More details after the break and more changes are likely to be coming soon, but in brief:

  • Some new and nifty sidebar features, like most popular posts in the last year (literally within the last 365 days)
  • A map of where people are visiting the site from (and soon I’ll probably have some other user stats)
  • A place for people to sponsor EMUTalk.org (more on that below)
  • And, most exciting of all, an opportunity for the site to once again have multiple authors in the form of “contributors.”

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While I was away…

… I came across many things I thought about posting about here.  I don’t have the time nor the desire to make these all individual posts, but here’s just some of what I thought was pretty interesting EMUTalk-wise during the holiday break (in no particular order):

Judge Mathis spoke at EMU graduation. Based on [...]

Don’t adjust your sets– some EMUTalk.org reconfiguration underway

I’m installing a long overdue upgrade to the software around here, so there might be a few changes here and there.  Remain patient and calm….