Under construction

by acavender on June 29, 2010

in Tech

With the advent of WordPress 3.0, I’m reorganizing my website. Previously, I was running a standard WP install for my main blog, and a WPMU install for my class blogs. Since WP and WPMU have merged, it seemed silly to continue to maintain two installations.

The need to reorganize gave me an excuse to do some redesign, too–so the look of this blog may change a bit over the next few weeks as I experiment.

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Testing MarsEdit

by acavender on May 10, 2010

in Uncategorized

There’s nothing to see here, really. I’m just giving MarsEdit 3 a test drive.

MarsEdit 3 – Desktop blog editing for the Mac.

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Influential people (re-post)

by acavender April 29, 2010

I first ran this post in March of 2007, but I thought of Ron again when the Gustavus alumni magazine recently ran a feature on the Political Science department. A re-post seems appropriate. ____________________________ I’m writing this from the University of Chicago, where for the last few days I’ve been attending a small faculty seminar [...]

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Holy Week Reflection

by acavender March 30, 2010

I’ll be giving a brief reflection at Vespers this evening. For whatever it’s worth, I’m posting that brief reflection here. The reading on which it’s based is I Corinthians 1:26-31. All quotations in the reflection are from the New American Bible’s translation of the text. ___________________ “Whoever boasts, should boast in the Lord.” Why does [...]

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Activity at the birdfeeder

by acavender March 13, 2010

This is one of the many kinds of birds I’m supposed to see at my birdfeeder. It’s one of many different varieties of birds that I see. In addition to chickadees, on any given morning I might also see house finches, gold finches, cardinals, juncos, mourning doves, house sparrows, and tufted titmice. Now and again [...]

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Testing WordPress for Android

by acavender February 5, 2010

This is just a test of mobile posting.

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Hanging on to useful information

by acavender November 5, 2009

I don’t have anything of interest to write about at the moment, but thought I’d provide a link to my most recent ProfHacker post: The importance of good record-keeping: What to keep.

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Being right and getting along

by acavender October 12, 2009

Leonard Pitts raises an interesting point in this op-ed piece about the Mojave Desert war memorial cross. Is there a time and a place to back away from principle for the sake of getting along? Would the assessment be different if the cross in question were in a much more prominent location?

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For those who may be wondering

by acavender September 25, 2009

No, I haven’t died, nor have I abandoned this blog. It’s just that I’ve been snowed under of late: I’ve been trying to keep up with the start of the new semester, in addition to getting my dossier together for fourth-year review and working on a few new projects. One of those new projects is [...]

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The President's speech to schoolchildren

by acavender September 8, 2009

Now that I’ve read the text, I have to admit I’m baffled as to why anyone would find this speech problematic. If this speech amounts to indoctrination, it’s indoctrination of precisely the sort I’d think we’d want: indoctrination that promotes hard work and responsibility. Those are virtues we want our children to have, right? (Thanks [...]

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