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In a slightly bluer mood…

sitedad — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 02:38:45 +0000

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

sitedad — Mon, 28 Jun 2010 11:41:33 +0000

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

sitedad — Tue, 01 Jun 2010 10:53:41 +0000

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

sitedad — Wed, 19 May 2010 14:17:29 +0000

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

sitedad — Tue, 06 Apr 2010 12:00:10 +0000

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!

sitedad — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 01:01:32 +0000

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!

sitedad — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:58:56 +0000

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

sitedad — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 20:58:04 +0000

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 [...]

While I was away…

sitedad — Mon, 04 Jan 2010 15:15:33 +0000

… 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

sitedad — Sat, 02 Jan 2010 03:35:26 +0000

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….