I’ll still be blogging here, but I’ve also just launched a new site called SciCulture (www.sciculture.com) and it’s my hope to entice a few new bloggers to make it their home. So if you know anyone that might be interested, have them contact me at cfeagans AT sciculture DOT com.

I’m still working out some of the kinks, but SciCulture will be more or less a hub for science news and discussion. I’m working on some news feeds, but there’s an active discussion forum (The Science Forum) linked as well as an example of the blogs format (WordPress).

Potential bloggers would have their own subdomain that can be linked to directly (eg. blog.sciculture.com) and control of their content, style, and ads if they so choose. The only requirement is a sidebar section that links to other SciCulture blogs and the main site.

SciCulture is in the development stage, but I hope to see it grow! Please offer me any suggestions or constructive criticism you might have.

At A Very Remote Period Indeed! And its the last double-digit edition! Next time around is #100 hosted by Martin at Aardvarchaeology. So send him your submissions. Don’t forget! I got lucky this time around and Julian picked up on my recent post on John the alleged Baptist!

I’ve sorted out some of the behind the scenes woes with the WP 3.0 upgrade. They actually put out an update last night to 3.0.1 and that upgrade went smoothly… without the Internal Server Error 500 I was getting previously. It took a little editing of the .htaccess file. Perhaps I’ll blog on the upgrades and improvements for the benefit of others who are thinking of the WP upgrade to their own blogs.

And the Articles Page is back!

Oh… and I’ll get rid of that silly sunset soon. I’m trying to work out a nice little banner.

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I’ve been working on the blog behind the scenes the last few days where I can get an hour or so from work and sleep. The theme looks pretty plain-jane right now, but its the new “Twenty Ten” theme, which is supposed to “take full advantage of WP 3.0.” The jury’s still out on that one.

It all started innocently enough. I thought I might simply do an auto-update. But that wouldn’t work. So I thought, hey… why don’t I just ftp the new files over after a backup?

That’s when I found out that I would need MySQL 5+ for a database rather than the much earlier version I had.

Okay… then I figured I’d simply update the database after a backup. Right? Right.

Turns out my webhost has a limit of just under 3 MB for an SQL database import. Mine was over 80 MB.

But, after doing some copy/paste jobs from the old database tables to the new database via queries, I have it mostly up to date. I’m not sure I’ll go back to the previous theme or just tweak this one, I haven’t figured out what the enhancements truly are yet. But I need to repair some image links and some miscellaneous formatting here and there. I can’t seem to get my Amazon widget working. And the silly characters that litter old posts when the database was updated will probably just have to stay. It seems special characters, inverted commas and apostrophes don’t import very well.

Ah well….. bear with me.

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The Four Stone Hearth is up at Prancing Papio! This is the 93rd edition and there are some good articles to peruse (your’s truly included). The next FSH will be hosted by Anthropology in Practice in just under a fortnight, so gather your posts and submit. If you’d like to host the FSH, contact Martin Rundkvist. I think the June 23 slot is still open!

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