Friday Varia and Quick Hits

I’ve blogged a bunch this week, so I’ll keep my Friday blog short thoughts:

On the Web:

• I need to update the look of my personal webpage.  It’s really bothering me.
• I contemplated moving my blog from TypePad to WordPress and perhaps even hosting on some of my server space.  I got a little spooked about this this past week, as my wife’s self-hosted (and unpatched) WordPress blog was hacked and there are rumblings about the University of North Dakota (where my server lives) articulating some better-defined internet policies with particular emphasis on blogs and social media. 
• That being said, I should at least update the look of my blog.  It’s embarrassing.
• Remind me again why I ditched my Blackberry for a Samsung Omnia?  Each day something new stops working.  Wednesday was my Gmail, yesterday it lost its link to the folder where my Media files are located, today it can’t seem to find the interwebs either through WiFi or through mobile broadband.  I am not sure whether it works as a phone any longer…

At home:

• I’m thinking about building a digital media center based on a Mac Mini and a Cambridge Audio DacMagic D/A converter.  It might be time to leave my CD collection behind and embrace the future.
• I’ve worked from home the last week.  In the mornings, I’ve been rewriting my History 240: The Historians Craft class.  I’ve blogged on this challenging class here, here,  and here.  And here was the most recent syllabus.
• I am also working on our final report for the Pyla-Koutsopetria Archaeological Project, a “conditionally accepted article” (accepted on the condition that we revise it and resubmit it, for what I gather) on some fortifications of the southeastern Corinthia, and our work this summer around the modern site of Lakka Skoutara, for which I need to produce a nice blog index.

At play:

• Make plans to go to the Surf and Song Festival next week if you live in Southeastern Florida!  (Even if you don’t!).  It’ll be a great time with great weather and great music… all for a great cause.