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It took me longer than expected to finish reading my prof’s book because it turned out to be too enjoyable to skim.

Prophet Motive: Deguchi Onisaburo, Oomoto, and the Rise of New Religion in Japan

They’ve added a class on Religion in Modern Asia which is, obviously, right up my alley. Regretfully (because it looks like a really cool class), I’ve had to drop Visual Evidence in Modern China for this. However, as a result of the reading assignment (just spent a couple days reading 100+ pages on visual culture), I have been so intrigued by Pang Lai-kwan’s “The Distorting Mirror: Visual Modernity in China” that I’ve ordered the book. Also just in: Mark MacWilliams, “Japanese Visual Culture.”

Registered for classes this morning.

ANS390 Readings in Modern East Asia – Stalker
(required proseminar for new grad students in East Asian studies)

ANS385 Visual Evidence in Modern China – Tsai
(related to my field as it concerns ‘reading’ a variety of visual media)

JPN320K Readings in Modern Japanese, Intermediate Level – Aida
(3rd year Japanese, semester 1)

I’ll also be TA’ing for Traphagan’s “Intro to the Study of Religion” class.

So I guess I’m officially a grad student now!

Yes, another WP post, mostly for posterity, but you never know who else might find it handy.

The problem with the new custom taxonomies is that they’re not added automatically to the Edit-posts page, which I find annoying. So, I added them myself. Just cut & paste into your theme’s functions.php file (or create one if your theme doesn’t have one, which is possible if you don’t have a widgetized theme), and then change to suit your taxonomy needs.
Continue reading about those taxonomies in 2.8

I found a need for a limited-time feedback form, given that some converted entries on a project had been checked, but ones after X date were done as part of the massive sweep (and were more likely to have errors). Sometimes readers will help out, and let you know what you’ve screwed up, or at least, it makes some folks feel good to find mistakes.

Continue reading a limited-offer feedback form

It’s official – I got my diploma today.

CP Grad Pic w/ UT Tower

©  2009 Flash Photography

First, declare globals. I’m not always certain which are needed and which could be dropped, but it’s just easier to declare them and be done with it, since they’re going to be used anyway, at some point. (Or perhaps this is a holdover from my days of ASP, in which everything had to be dimmed or Bad Things Happened.) Then pull the information from the two places that feed into this page: at the very start (the index page) and after inserting into the database. After the proc-page(s), the app refreshes back here, so that had to be allowed for, as well. Continue reading the crazed path of file conversions, pt III

From the top, on the index page, I select a file and an author. Because the files don’t have consistent author-naming in their headers, and I didn’t want to bother with making sure all 45 did, it was just easier to programmatically insert the author name via the second drop-down list. What that really gets me is the user_ID for each author, which then becomes another identifier in the database. Continue reading the crazed path of file conversions: pt II