The Jenkins Hullabaloo

So there has been a lot of recent wailing and gnashing of teeth in regards to Father Jenkins' closing statement on academic freedom and Catholic character. A lot of unsatisfied faculty members have voiced their dissatisfaction to what turned out to be a much more liberal policy than they expected. It turns out that Professor Sayre was right regarding how he predicted this all would turn out.

Now, however, the local church as entered into the discussion. Bishop D'Arcy just released a statement on the policy. I'll be reading it and giving a final assessment on Father Jenkins' policy within the next few days. The question that I'm going to address is whether Father Jenkins' policy would stand up legally given His Excellency's doctrinal assessment.

Almost there

Since Danielle already did the same on her weblog, here's a picture of where I'll be next year. Granted, it doesn't look as cool as Waggener, but it still is pretty nice. I'm getting rather excited. Thankfully, I took care of major business today. Hurrah. Only a few things left to do and then I'll be done.

Blogger experience so far

So Blogger seems to be pretty cool. I almost have tailored the template to produce proper XHTML. The Blogger search bar is the only thing that seems to not be conforming. I wonder if the Blogger folks are aware of it. Anyway, the Minima style works for now, as I really don't want anything too flashy and it looks nice anyways.

While, technically, there isn't any native category support, I found a workaround here from Taher Baderkhan. He uses the search engine for Blogger to index the categories and adds underscores to the category names so that they're distinct from post text. He has JavaScript code for those who don't want to copy the URL into each category link on the sidebar, but I'm not doing that for the sake of those who don't have/don't want to use JavaScript.

Second post in as many days. I'm on a roll. Too bad I still have computer abbreviations in the post. They'll go away eventually, Danielle.

Paying for CGI is not worth it

I unfortunately had to leave my previous blog due to Tejas charging me for CGI use. This is what happens when you move from a medium-sized Catholic university with money to burn on IT to the largest public university in the nation. Oh well.

I've got a lot of stuff to do in the next two weeks. Let's see how often I post in the new place.