Research Reflections, Web Sites, and Camping, Oh My!

Posted by Nicole Sharp on 14 July 2005 at 20:39

It's been several months since I started working on a new personal site to put on home.cwru.edu, and though I had a design that I liked and most of the content written, I hadn't uploaded it. Today I was supposed to spend some time explaining my research at a SOURCE luncheon, and I decided to put together a web page that gave an overview of my project, my work so far, my problems, my accomplishments and so forth. I didn't quite get everything I wanted done before lunchtime, but I got quite a lot, including pictures. While I was at it, I uploaded the rest of the site. Here it is.

Some of the content is missing still, most notably under Travels and Writing, but that'll get done at some point, I'm sure. Actually, I'm toying with the idea of purchasing the domain nicolesharp.net (.com is taken) and adding it on to my other domain. If I do, I'll move the home.cwru.edu content there along with some more content--resume, anyone? I'll feel a lot more confident about the accessibility of my site if I have a PHP coding environment, which home.cwru.edu doesn't provide. Right now, I'm faking it with JavaScript, which most everyone will tell you is a bad idea. Alas my laziness!

It was really useful--almost theraputic--for me to sit down and systematically describe my work in simple terms. I've been having so many equipment problems this last week that I was beginning to feel like I was accomplishing absolutely nothing. Reviewing everything made me feel a lot better, though.

Mark, Greg, and I are going camping this weekend at Pymatuning State Park. I wasn't hugely excited, but now that the time is drawing near, I'm really looking forward to it, despite the weather forecasts. It's been years since I went camping properly. Come to think of it, the most recent thing that could conceivably be called "camping" that I've participated in was when I was climbing Kilimanjaro. Going on vacation with my parents in the RV just doesn't qualify.

My goals for the weekend are as follows: hike, read, write, swim, and relax. And take photos, of course. Everyone who wants to see Mark sulking about camping, raise their hand!

5 comments 0 trackbacks permalink

Trackbacks

Comments
  • 1
    Got Gravatars?

    csh11 said

    On 14 July 2005 at 23:36

    *sorta raises his hand and then puts it back down*

  • 2
    Got Gravatars?

    Nicole Sharp said

    On 14 July 2005 at 23:49

    Chris, I know you're capable of being more energetic than that.

  • 3
    Got Gravatars?

    jms18 said

    On 15 July 2005 at 00:04

    Ooh... I couldn't convince you to set up your site on the blog server?

  • 4
    Got Gravatars?

    Nicole Sharp said

    On 15 July 2005 at 08:29

    Erm.. I'm not quite sure why you'd want me to do that, Jeremy. Don't you need the blog server for all the blogs for those incoming freshmen? What would you want my site gumming it up for?

  • 5
    Got Gravatars?

    jms18 said

    On 15 July 2005 at 14:02

    Erm, good test case for the WebDAV support. Though, I make regular use of that anyways.

Post a Comment