I spent the last two days at BlogWorld Expo, here in Las Vegas. It was pretty cool, though I spent a lot more time on the exhibition hall floor than in sessions. First of all because my schedule is so hectic, and second of all because the sessions -- at least the ones I was in -- weren't all that interesting (or, rather, weren't that interesting to me).
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I just noticed a bunch of quite old comments -- like, 10 weeks old and older -- that had gotten stuck in the moderation queue. If you've ever commented here and didn't see your comment come up, I apologize; I hadn't understood how Akismet's spam filter worked in Drupal (I've only used it in WordPress before). If that sentence is sheer gobbledygook to you, let's just say "I screwed up" and leave it at that.
A funny thing happened at the Barnes and Noble last week. I had stopped in to browse a little before an afternoon class, and picked up an issue of Writer's Digest. As I checked out, the clerk -- an older woman -- asked if I was a writer.
"Yeah," I responded, "I am."
"What do you write?" she asked.
"Well, I'm a professor at the University, so a lot of my writing is academic stuff, but I also write quite a bit online, mostly how to-type articles."
At the mention of my teaching, she lit up. "What do you teach?"
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