I received Dr. Wilkie’s comments on the thesis. Most of his comments, outside of ones directed at the uselessness of “theory” itself, were grammatical or stylistic. He’s quite a good copy editor, in fact. So I’ll be adding in those changes today and sending out fresh copies. But everyone is ready to find a date for the defence, so it’s moving forward (toward the end, one hopes).
Today will be my first day back at work. After two weeks off, I can’t say I’m looking forward to it. It’s been nice not to have to worry about those things. But that’s life. I’ll be back at it in a few short hours, and I’m just hoping for a good first day back.
WheatBlog is progressing nicely. I still haven’t released any source code. I keep thinking I will as soon as I add “all the basic functionality” but what comprises “basic functionality” keeps expanding. Right now, I’m nearly through with the editing interface (the part that lets you select a post you’ve already added to the database and make changes to it). It works, actually, but when you do it, it creates a new timestap for the post. So, instead of leaving the old post on whatever date you originally penned it, it gets moved to the top (as your most recent addition). This is, of course, correct in a sense (by editing it, you have made it a new entry). At the same time, it’s not very practical that way. The fix is simple, I’ll just have to save the timestamp of the post as a varable and write it to the timestamp field when I update the post. After I fix that (and rename some files, and update the documentation), I’ll get it out the door (maybe by May 1). I’m going to be using it on the next revision of my homepage. I also have plans to create a version of it optimized for guestbooks (I’ll call it WheatBook) and use that on the new Nancy page.
Speaking of Nancy, our KXUA benefit show the other night rocked. The crowd was great and so were all the other bands. I finally got to see Tyco (who have a great reputation around here, and now I know why) and Figure 5, who are going to be playing with us soon at another show. Figure 5 are a power-trio that play very interesting instrumentals with lots of nice odd-meter changes. It doesn’t come across as fusion, though, because the parts themselves are very melodic and usually very simple. It’s closer to what some people call emocore (similar in many ways to the stuff our drummer did with Cars Get Crushed).