Posted: October 25th, 2007 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: History, Site Announcements | 1 Comment »
I am planning to attend the following upcoming conferences:
Society for City and Regional Planning History Conference
October 25-28 – Portland, Maine ($150 for students)
Washington, D.C. Historical Studies Conference
Nov. 1-3 – Carnegie Library, Washington, D.C. (free)
American Historical Association Annual Meeting
Jan. 3-6, 2008 – Woodley Park, Washington, D.C. ($75 for students)
Posted: October 9th, 2007 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Site Announcements | 9 Comments »
Readers will notice I’m experimenting with a new design for this website. What do you think?
Posted: August 27th, 2006 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Site Announcements | No Comments »
You may have noticed some design changes to this website I made over the weekend. I widened the layout and greatly condensed the sidebar content, eliminating the blogroll and moving some of the old links to my archives page. I deleted the links partly because of what I read in this post about how they reinforce hierarchy, and partly because they were woefully outdated. I’ve chosen to expand the design to 800 pixels but not wider because about 15% of site visitors view the site at that resolution. Are there any other changes I should make?
Posted: June 22nd, 2006 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Blogosphere, District of Columbia, Site Announcements | 5 Comments »
Inspired by this NY Times article, I decided to post this little announcement … Yesterday at the highly successful and fun monthly blogger meetup I host, my bag containing a notebook and my digital camera was stolen. It was taken between 9:00 and 10:30 PM from the outdoor seating area at Pharoah’s Rock N’ Blues in Adams Morgan, located at 1817 Columbia Rd. NW, Washington, DC 20009. The suspects who were loitering nearby just before the bag disappeared are two white males, estimated age 17-20 years. One approached us trying to sell a CD player, still in its original packaging.
The actual bag stolen was entirely dark blue, the camera is a Nikon Coolpix 2200 in a small black case, and the notebook is 8.5×5.5 in size, has a red cover, and contains miscellaneous notes. Give me my stuff back, you little punks!
Posted: April 24th, 2006 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Site Announcements | 6 Comments »
It’s official: I’m attending the Master of Community Planning program at the University of Maryland’s School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation in the fall. It’s a two year master’s program in urban planning that requires an internship and studio project in addition to the coursework. I will also be a TA for the freshman introductory course in the Landscape Architecture Program for the fall semester.
Needless to say I am quite excited!
Posted: February 12th, 2006 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Site Announcements | No Comments »
This site has been dark for a few days after the server it lived on croaked. However, thanks to quick thinking by friend and tech guru Scott Trudeau, we are up and running on a new server. Thanks, Scott!
Posted: December 7th, 2005 | Author: Rob Goodspeed | Filed under: Site Announcements, Technology | No Comments »
I just installed the “recent-comments” and “most-commented” plugins written by Nick Momrik. I had no trouble at all installing either, I only wish the recent comments plugin had the option to display the date of the comment. I’ve also sprinkled some Google ads around (might as well, right?) and am considering tweaking the layout slightly to make the right hand column more narrow. Any suggestions?
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