Content’s been a little light around Nuketown lately, between the holidays, being crazy business at work, and the three seasons of Stargate: Atlantis that my friend Cory lent me. This has create a pent of demand in the writing portion of my brain, which is screaming for more work. To that end, I’ll be endeavoring … Read more
It’s been a quiet fall around Nuketown. I didn’t realize just how quiet until this morning, when I was surfing around the archives and saw just how many days I didn’t post in September, October, and November. Granted, November was lost to writing the novel, but the earlier months weren’t all that much better. The … Read more
I’m going to be upgrading Nuketown to the latest and greatest version of Drupal at some point over the next two days (hopefully tonight, given that I’ve laid in supplies of Mountain Dew and fried chicken, and the family won’t be home until late). I’m testing it on local version hosted by ye ol’PowerMac first, … Read more
Ah yes, my coffee shop starts blogging, and I all but stop. It’s been that kind of week. Heck, it’s been that kind of Interim. Working in IT at a college, January turns into a mad, frantic rush to get everything done between when the students leave campus in December, and when they return at … Read more
And lo, a great many spammers visit the forums of Nuketown and The Griffin’s Crier, descending like a plague of locusts upon the land. They come seeking page rankings from their great link god Google, and thus, offer endless sacrifices of strange herbs, impossible enhancements and the vast riches of Nigeria. Yet from this plague … Read more
After six months of hard work, a year’s worth of speculation, and a decade’s time spent on the Web, the new Nuketown is online. The redesigned site features a new look that evokes earlier iterations of the ol’thermonuclear burg, while updating it with a slightly glossier feel. New features abound on the site, which is … Read more
As I mentioned in Radio Active #31, this month I will be transitioning Nuketown from its current configuration to a new, Drupal-based content management system and a shiny new layout. To avoid having to maintain two sites while I migrate the database from one to the other, I will not be making any updates to Nuketown for the next week to two weeks.
All will not be quiet however. If you want to track the progress of the migration, please read my Atomic Age blog over on Blogger, which will be updated almost daily. Look there for announcements about the second round of beta tests, screen shots of the latest versions, and quasi-technical rundowns of problems remaining and solved. Comments and feedback via the blog or Nuketown’s own feedback form are welcome and appreciated!
The Nuketown redesign picked up pace this weekend as I finally sat down and focused on it for a couple of hours. In the process I wrestled the new site’s visual design into place, ending up with a fusion of the current blog-like look and the experimental magazine-still site I was playing around with. If … Read more
Nuketown’s 2005 Reader Survey is now over, and I’m pleased to announce the winner of the contest: David Weathers. David will be receiving a $10 gift certificate to Amazon.com. I didn’t get a huge number of responses to the survey (less than a dozen) but the ones I did get were informative. Just as importantly, … Read more
The 2005 Nuketown Readers Survey is our attempt to get a feel for what you love and hate about the site, as well as how you’d like to see the ol’thermonuclear burg expand. We did one of these a few years ago, and the drill is basically the same, the only difference is that if … Read more