So, I have installed WordPress 2.7 on my long-forgotten TravisSmith.us domain. I have been considering migrating JerryTravis.com to WordPress, so for now, this is a testbed to see if I really like the platform enough to do so.

This semester has been very hectic. Teaching is going well enough. For the most part, I have really good students, which is nice. It’s our Program Assessment year, which is a big part of our school’s accreditation, so that’s made things a little more hectic than I’d like, but that will be over in less than two weeks. The most challenging part of the semester has been my college classes. Global Information Systems has kept me and my group very, very busy. I’m still here, though. It’ll all be over on December 6, at which point I’ll let loose a huge sigh of relief.

A colleague of mine has just opened a new trading post site at EastKYPost.com. It allows you show the world items that you currently have for sale as well as request items that you are interested in buying. The best thing about it is that the postings are targeted for the people of Eastern Kentucky.

If you check out the homepage of Jerrytravis.com, you’ll notice that there is now a nifty new calendar on the right-hand side of the page that shows the posts from the last active month of the site. I wrote the entire thing myself, which is something I’ve been wanting to write from scratch for a very long time. The calendar itself is very modular and allows the same calendar engine to be used for a myriad of purposes. I’m going to clean up code and document it, then I’ll probably post the code on the site for all to see and use!