Alex Peters: Doing All the Wrong Things the Right Way.

November 23, 2009 • 04:07 0

My life, expressed in the nerdiest metaphorical terms possible.‏

There are about two weeks of this academic term remaining, and everything is  amazing.  I’ve never felt as happy or as challenged by work as I have in the last eight weeks of my life.  It’s all coming to a head now and between three classes I have six major projects/assignments all due in a seven day timeline.

Instead of panicking about my deadlines, I spent about an hour last night trying to figure out how a Rubik’s cube works.  I still haven’t got it figured out, but I learned through my practice that I can deliberately make one side all the same color.  The problem is I can’t decide which color I’m going to make it until I have about 3 of the same one in a row.

This, for all intents and purposes, is exactly how I’m going to live my life for the remainder of the term.

So this is how my life is going to work out next week:

  • One or two of the projects I have cooking right now will come out beautifully.
  • A couple of the things I’m working on will come out looking mostly the way they should save for a few glaring exceptions.
    AND
  • One or two of them will be a horrible clusterfuck that I have little to no excuse for.

I still don’t know which assignments will live and breathe, and which ones will die, but this term has definitely turned into the academic equivalent of the Kobayashi Maru.

No matter what the outcome, I am committed to saving the ones that die.  I’ll take them to my creepy cellar, submerge them in embalming fluid to preserve their lifelike qualities, and leave them on the shelf until I can reanimate their flesh.

AP.

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October 8, 2009 • 04:07 0

A Cautionary Tale.

I dived right into WordPress.com because it’s easy.  I bought a domain name somewhere else and mapped it to an exisiting wordpress.com page in a very short amount of time.  WordPress.com looks nice, is really simple to use, and is totally free.  But what are the drawbacks?

For starters, I can’t use Google Analytics.  If you don’t know what it is, learn it.  It’s awesome.  The problem is that it’s only available through WordPress.ORG.  Through WordPress.org you can install a quick and easy plug-in and be up and running in no time, but with WordPress.com you’re S.O.L.

There are tons of amazing, and free, custom WordPress themes that you can download and install at toxel.com.  Again, the problem is that you can’t upload them to your WordPress unless you have WordPress.org installed on your hosting space.   Some of the themes come with the CSS in some sort of .php file, but you’ll lose all of the images attached to said theme if you can’t install them in a specific WordPress directory on a hosting space.

The long and short of this post is that what I have here is not adequate for all intents and purposes.  These are features I would like be able to utilize within the next year, and I wish I would have been less hasty in making my decision.  If I had taken the more challenging path and built something that could be a little more dynamic, this page ultimately could have become something that would have met all of my future needs.

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