Updating WordPress: The Fatal Error
I find it really annoying that every time I update WordPress I have to deal with the “Allowed memory size of xxxxxx bytes exhausted” error. For my own benefit, I link the solution here.
Lowcountry Flooding
I had been planning to work on some Jeep skidplate designs this morning, but it started raining in the pre-dawn. Still hasn’t stopped. So I resorted to heading over to my campus office and fiddling with an article on a medieval King Arthur poem that I’ve been writing off and …
Extra Credit Requests and the Doom of Teaching
You’re not surprised. After all, it’s that time of year again. As grades are turned in, your inbox fills with emails from just-found-religion repentant students. They loved the class, even though they didn’t pass. Honestly, it was their favorite one, and the fact that they slept through two or three …
Semester Done!
I turned in grades today, completing the term. Thank goodness. Perhaps largely due to the new baby around the house, this has been the busiest semester I’ve had in years. Hardly seems like I’ve had a spare moment. But it’s over now. I’m not working on anything academic for at …
Student Publication in The Lesser Squawk
This is the kind of news I seriously love to share: Another of my students has been published. This particular student is actually a knob (Citadel-talk for “freshman”) in my English 101 class of all things: a jolly good chap named James Tomlinson, who has a brief article in the …