August 2007 Archives
The title could have read, "Comments were broken for reasons having entirely to do with a small technical workaround your author made two years ago that broke during the MT4 upgrade because he didn't pay attention to a few filenames, but which has now been repaired."
Many thanks to the denizens of #movabletype on irc.freenode.net. They made me glad I actually paid for MT3.
For some reason indiscernible to me, the comment form is not displaying on the individual entry pages. (Or, more accurately, it's displaying for an instant and then disappearing.) I'm looking into it, but don't know if I'll have much more time to work on it tonight.
Paragraphing isn't turning up in the atom feed. An entire post turns up as one big block of text. If you've got any advice on how to fix that, please let me know. Thanks!
(Added: Manually formatting the post seemed to help.)
I've installed Movable Type 4 on the server that hosts this blog. In the process, I dumped my semi-custom template set and went with a MT default template and style. I've learned to leave template and style design to those who have the time to do it right. I'm also going to go with a sans-serif typeface for a while, since I've been very serif-oriented for the last five years. Now I just have to write something.
This site is also at "www.mcfp.org" now, but blog.tph-lex.com will still work, too. (Two names, one place.)
In other news, my wife and I are expecting a baby (our first) in December. It's a girl — the sonographer had a very high level of confidence in reaching that conclusion, and looking at the monitor, I had to agree. We're both thrilled. And excited. And, of course, anxious about what life will be like after mid-December. In the meantime, there's a lot to do!
What comes to your mind when you hear the word "success"? "Success" is a concept that has given me some cognitive dissonance over the years, because I didn't really think much of "success" as such until I went to law school and the word was everywhere. And I resented that to some degree, because the message that we students got (and to varying degrees perpetuated) was this: "Success" means some combination of the following and the more the better: achieving a certain GPA or class rank; getting a clerkship; getting a highly-paid associate position in a large firm; and eventually becoming a partner in that firm, obtaining a high-profile government or corporate position, or becoming a judge or law professor. Although some allowance was generally made for the fact that not everyone shared those goals, acknowledgments that those paths aren't for everyone usually seemed to me to carry with them a hint of disdain.
It's relatively easy to think of success in terms of what one might call "public" career achievements (i.e. visible accomplishments in a particular field). But those kinds of events are not sufficient, nor in every case necessary, to what I would call success "in the broad sense" — a life well lived. It is one thing to be successful at something and quite another to be and feel successful in more general terms. One can be very successful in the deployment of one set of skills and yet relatively unsuccessful in the broader sense and unhappy in life.
Maybe the reason that notion of success is not given much airtime by career services offices in law schools and elsewhere is that it is simply outside the scope of their advising capabilities. They can provide some guidance on how one might think about career decisions in the broader context of one's life, but their expertise relates to job placement much more than to career counseling. So they talk about what they can help with and refer everyone with bigger-picture questions and concerns to books. Just a hypothesis.
