I’ve spent a lot of the last nine months, the non-blogging months, finishing grad school. I’m done now. Hi, I’m Dr. Shawn Burns, Ph.D., and now I don’t know what I’m doing. I spent the spring finishing the writing and editing of my dissertation, while Adrian finished pre-school, and Erin finished first grade. I attended…
Category: Blogging
Catching Up (No Photos)
It’s been a busy few months around here. Birthdays, trips, solo-parenting stints, medical procedures, working, avoiding working, working again. I stopped blogging in the middle of recounting our road trip (it started to feel like homework instead of blogging), and I couldn’t write anything else without finishing that first, which meant I didn’t write anything…
I’m Funnier On Twitter (A Guide to Embedded Tweets in WordPress 3.4)
I upgraded my WordPress installation, and while reading the details page I saw that apparently this version allows embedding of tweets into WordPress posts with some kind of interactivity about them. I’m supposed to type the permanlink to a tweet on its own line, and then WordPress will do something magic with that link. I…