Archive for August 10th, 2005


WordPress themes

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Just in case I want to change the theme of this site, here’s the best place to get ready-made themes. It’s cool how easy it is to change the theme - just download some files, upload them to my server, and choose the theme in the WordPress options.

Writing in Electronic Spaces

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

This fall, I am taking another class at ODU called “Writing in Electronic Spaces.” I think it’s kinda funny, to write that in a blog :)

The catalog says:

This course offers writing practice in critical contemporary electronic writing environments, especially emphasizing Web-based compositions. Readings and discussions provide a history of electronic writing, the Internet, and hypertext theory. Students should expect to construct a variety of Web sites and engage in theoretical discourse around the sites they are building.

I’m interested in pursuing the Certificate in Professional Writing at ODU, and WES, I’ll call it, sounds interesting, so that will be coming up. I’ll let you know how it goes.

It’s Wednesday! Time for TNT.

Wednesday, August 10th, 2005

Since 2001, almost every Tuesday or Wednesday, I go out to dinner with a group of friends. It started as a way for a group of people who lived in the same condo complex to get to know each other. They invited other friends, who invited other friends, then people moved out, and the new people weren’t interested, etc. So now we have a different group of about eight people with a core of four who meet for dinner at a different restaurant each week.

It’s called TNT for Tuesday Night Tipplers. We used to go out on Tuesdays, but I had a class at Old Dominion University last spring that met on Tuesdays, so we changed it to Wednesdays, but TNT has a nice ring to it, don’t you think? :)

We stick to the Ghent and downtown areas of Norfolk, and sometimes we go across the river to Portsmouth. Tonight we’re going to the No Frill Grill in Ghent. Nice place - good food at good prices, casual atmosphere and outside dining. It’s too hot today to sit outside, though. The heat index is around 95.

Anyway, I’m going to use this blog to keep track of what we like and don’t like about where we go, so I’ll write more later about what we ate.