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I swear I’ve had this exact conversation at least 10 times.

Copyright Randall Munroe from XKCD.

I have been remiss in my blogging duties.  Since returning from the Rally to Restore Sanity, life has been quite busy.

I was asked a few weeks ago to present my thesis research on media literacy for the School of Media and Strategic Communications’ Colloquium series. I presented for about half an hour, then did a few minutes of question-and-answer with the faculty.  The experience wasn’t nearly as stressful as I thought it might be, and the discussion with my colleagues was interesting as well.  I’m posting my presentation here via SlideShare in case you’re interested in discussing it with me as well!

You may have noticed that my sidebar has been busted for the past several months. That’s because I started editing the stylesheet without actually knowing what I was doing. Then I couldn’t figure out what I’d done to break it. Oops!

Welp, I finally got tired of looking at my ugly mistake and decided to figure out this little CSS issue. I was pleasantly surprised that it only took this CSS n00b about an hour to diagnose and fix the problem all by myself. Tanner was quite proud.

I found a couple of other problems with my sidebar as well, and Tanner helped me diagnose and fix those. There’s still an overflow issue somewhere but I’ll have to figure that out later.

And, just so we’re clear, I’m in no way saying I know CSS – just that I understand it a lot more and it’s not so scary after all!