Well, it was a busy week in several ways.? As you’ve read here, I’ve been teaching like crazy, and beyond that, my Ubuntu 8.10 disk came in the mail, so I installed it on the new laptop, and I’ve never had a faster computer. Between the dropping cost of PC’s and the solid programming in Linux Land, my inexpensive-Christmas-gift machine (thank you, Mary!) could probably anticipate what I’m wanting to do next without my pressing any buttons, but it just doesn’t want to show off.
I”ve been tinkering with DreamWeaver to get NathanGilmour.com up and running, and it’s 
actually functional as a resume page now, supplanting my page on the myWeb server at UGA.? (You can link to it from the right margin if you’d like.) I’ve been trying to construct a truly functional online teaching portfolio with as many handouts ready to print should anybody wish to look at them, and I’m starting to draft some plans for classes I could teach.? Right now my plan is to include a general philosophy for the class, likely textbooks, and a rough semester-long schedule for each so that I can adapt any given class to any given school’s schedule.? I’ve also updated my CV.
And as you can see, the new blog is up, and I’m pleased with the new look.? Because of the new address and the new features, if you’re a regular reader and wish to remain so (and I hope you’ll remain so), I humbly beseech you to do the following:
- Click on the menu button in the lower left corner and register on the site.? I’m the only one with any access to that, so no merchants will be bugging you, but it’ll save you the hassle of typing in your information every time you comment.? You can also obtain the site’s RSS feed, browse by category, and search the site from there.
- Add this site’s RSS feed (available, as noted, in the menu in the lower left corner) to your Google reader, feedburner account, or whatever else you use to read blogs
- Choose a background image and color scheme (conveniently coordinated to a vaguely syncretistic scheme of elements) in the same menu–isn’t that cool?
- If you have your own blog, please note in a post (not as its own post necessarily, but that would be cool too) that Nathan Gilmour’s new site is www.nathangilmour.com so that Google will go there rather than my older sites.? Also, if you link to me on your blogroll, change that as well.
- If you’re one of my Facebook people, go to the Blog Networks application and add yourself as a fan of this site.
I know, I know.? The end of January comes, and Gilmour’s making demands.? Ain’t that just like him?? Well, I’m at Bogart Library for the day, and the first computer user with questions is flagging me down.
To my duty!
Very nice. I like it.
Thank you. I have to ask–which of the elemental themes did you pick?
They’re all pretty neat. I think I like the one you picked as the default the best though. I’ll probably just leave it on that.
It is nice. (My personal favorite is the fire look, but every user can have his own, if I understand the readme file.)
With regards to self-hosting, it is nice, and 1and1.com lets you do it for four bucks a month. I can scarcely get lunch for that much, so having my own domain name registered and more blog flexibility was worth the thirteen cents (or so) a day that I spend. Beyond that, the tutorials for installing the wordpress software (which is itself free and has cool themes like this one) were simple enough that I put this site together in a couple hour-long sittings.
In other words, I look forward to seeing http://www.keepinitwizzle.com!
HA! I like that name!