Yesterday, for a variety of reasons, I finally left dot mac and shifted this entire site to a full-featured host. The domain is www.danieldriver.com, and www.vetustestamentum.com will bring you here as well.

Hopefully the transition is not too painful for you frequenters of these pages. To make it as smooth as possible, I've kept the RSS feed links the same, so blog subscribers should not need to change anything (though I noticed this morning that Google Reader aggregated 100+ old posts as new entries—simple solution: mark all as read).

Please do update those links. For the meanwhile I've put up redirect scripts at all the old locations.

Finally, I have tightened up the content somewhat. Let me know if you've got suggestions for improvements; I've made a few recently, and would gladly make a few more.

As 2007 draws to a close, I've taken a little time to implement updates to the entire site. It doesn't quite count as an overhaul, but some navigational improvements are overdue, and new content has been TK for all too long.

Excuse the inevitable clutter as the changes are published. And please let me know if problems arise.

Look, I know this is occasional stuff at best, but I've had at least one request lately for better RSS support. Well, I've turned to Feed Burner. You may also notice that I've added a box for select feeds. That way, even when I don't post often, you can see what web content I don't feel I've wasted my time in reading. ("Wasting time" is a major category now, in my mind, as I push to the end of this interminable PhD.)

Here's the new syndication link for Occasional Publications.

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It recently came to my attention how out of date the site was w/r/t my research. I've deleted some information that was erroneous, updated the proposalog, and have plans to update the research section of the site over the next week or two. Maybe the rest as well, who knows.

Those with interest, take a look at the IWER blog.

Finally, I got around to posting five photos from our recent IWER event.

I've written up the results of our research last night. Single malt lovers, please take a look. Participants, be sure to add your comments.

I've been working on annotating a select bibliography of Childs' work. I've chosen five books. You can read why here.

Check out the IWER Events Blog for details on an event this Friday.

Between helping a friend move into a new apartment, answering emails and completing other tasks for the upcoming Hebrews Conference, I've been attending to the finer details of this redesigned site. There's a little more artwork here and there. And some of the content has been updated and/or rearranged. I've tried to make the URL's sensible, and I think I can continue to tweak them without affecting their addresses.

FYI, two domain names will redirect you to this space. First, www.danieldriver.com takes you to this blog. Secondly, www.vetustestamentum.com lands you at my start page.

There are other additions in the wings, such as a searchable bibliography. I'll announce specific improvements when they get up and running.

Thanks to RapidWeaver and Rapid-Ideas, it only took one day to effect a complete website overhaul. And I spent most of that time looking for the right four images on sites like BildIndex and the Web Gallery of Art.

Like it? Bonus points if you can pick out the theme (more specific than "paintings").

I've incorporated another 20 reviews into the online Childs bibliography, all of which have links to full text through JSTOR. I'll update the PDF file to include the new reviews by the end of the day.

The final results are:

Books: 4 of 12 online (33%)
Articles: 19 of 58 online (32%)
Reviews: 60 of 72 online (83%)

Hopefully others out there will find this resource useful. Happy reading!

Tags: Childs

I updated the Childs bibliography to reflect all the titles by Childs that are available online. So far I know of four books and four articles. Please let me know if you find others!

UPDATE: So there's far more Childs online than I ever imagined! So far I've got 4 books, 12 articles, and 33 reviews. New links to all of this are now up. Check it out, then, if you're working on Childs, thank me profusely. Or if you notice any omissions or mistakes, let me know.

UPDATE: OK, this is getting insane. I now have four books, nineteen articles, and forty (!) reviews. The reviews are particularly impressive. As far as I know, the last review Childs wrote was in 1992, and the first was in 1958. I count 52 reviews here, which means 77% of his reviews are online. Did I say that was before 1992?! Along the way, I discovered about a dozen other reviews that I had not know about (I'll post them tomorrow). That will push the final mark for reviews online to 81%. Who are these people!?

Tags: PhD

I was browsing the online text of the three SEAD essays (see previous post), and I soon discovered that the online text is not always identical to the printed text.

For example, "Sheer rot!" is deleted from third-to-last paragraph of the essay "Discrete Witness" in the printed edition (p62). It would be interesting to know if there were other such omissions!

Tags: PhD

I've updated my Start page, complete with a new title for the site which was partly suggested to me by Phil: the Daniel Driver Visitor's Information Bureau. Up to now I haven't really had a title, so the nondescript links I've got from some sites as simply "DRD Blog" are my own fault. May I also draw your attention to the fact that you can get here by directing the browser of your choice to: http://www.danieldriver.com/.

I think I finally get around to updating the look of the site, too, which I've been thinking about for some time now.

Question (completely unrelated): do American mothers living in the UK expect to have mother's day celebrated two times?

Cleaning off my desk, I found the scrap of paper where I'd tallied the votes from the last IWER session. So I posted them on the IWER blog. Better late than never.

There should be at least one more session before the end of term. I'll email out an announcement soon.

I was able to use allforms, a free service, to get the contact page up and running. I've tested it, and it works this time.

I've just discovered that my contact form does not work with the .Mac server. I know a work around, which I'll implement soon. Sorry, though, if you sent a message to me in the last few days. I did not receive it.

While I'm at it, I've had to restructure a few things. The paths won't be the same as they were at the end of last week. You probably won't notice unless you subscribed to the RSS feed, or bookmarked a page (of course the base URL remains the same, though).

Those of you who noticed my post on blogspot (Carla) no doubt had me at the bottom of an RSS feeder somewhere. If you're still interested, it is now possible to subscribe to this blog now. Just click here, or follow the link on the sidebar.

Carla, I entirely take your point about these pages feeling a bit clinical. Any further suggestions? I still appreciate the general CSS layout. Maybe I could tweak the colors and redo the header. But that might not be enough.

UPDATE: I rearranged the structure of files on this site, which means the address for the RSS feed changed once again. Sorry. The above link has been corrected. I'm done changing this type of thing, I think.

I've decided to give the web presence thing a second go. One year ago I started blogging on blogspot, but for whatever reason that effort petered out. The last entry listed the offerings at our last IWER meeting, perhaps leaving the impression that whisky had got the better of me. Perhaps it has.

Since I've stopped blogging, though, I've wondered if a site that features more permanent content might better suit my habits. I'm not a blogging polymath like Jim Davila, after all.

Look for more content in the days to come. I may be able to start blogging again, too, though no promises.