Don’t worry, it’s not goodbye…

November 29, 2006

…rather, it’s an upgrade. Shale has officially moved (actually, since 15 November) to http://shale.wordpress.com.

Sadly we can’t move our entries from here to the new site, and some things have to be ridiculously ditched to accommodate stuff, and we’re still in growing pains, but we hope you follow us there the way you followed us here since March. We’ve got three articles up there, and hopefully more to come. DOn’t worry, though - this site will still be up to keep all articles between the launch last March 2006 until now.

So, we’ll see you there, with all the celebrity, the politics, and the nonsense… we’re waiting.

Should we move to WordPress?

November 10, 2006

We’ve been long contemplating about moving Shale, from its current home at i.ph, to WordPress. Nothing against where we are right now, but although Shale has never looked any slicker, we thought it’s time to move out of where we are and go into somewhere new, and probably slicker. If so, we would probably even relaunch, with a new name.

But why now, when we’re in the middle of launching two new sister blogs and a lot of things are in the horizon, despite us being really busy with school? To be honest about it, it’s all a whim. That’s why we’re asking you guys whether we should even move - move to somewhere new, and somewhere probably easier for us to work with, now that we’ve started to ease towards a new direction, or stay here and grow.

We’ll admit, it hurts if we move blogs (and definitely not move all the entries, unless we all prefer to do it manually, which is very tedious work), and we don’t really want to leave behind the comments already made about this one, like the reputation we’ve gained covering the General Elections, or from the handful of people in other countries (especially radio presenters, like Annie Mac) who’ve noticed and taken note. We’d gladly appreciate your thoughts; to send them in, comment on this entry, or email us at shale@i.ph. Nevertheless, we hope to have you staying when we do decide to move (if you say so, or if we find WordPress easier), and watch out for future developments in this space.

Major round-up: release three

November 5, 2006

As I said, the work did kill us, and so did this series for a while. After the fold, photography complaints, research complaints - essentially, stress issues and how we addressed them, four weeks later. We’ve just been through midterms, basically… (more…)

It’s enrollment season, again

Sometimes you wonder whether enrollment this term would really be worth it. Of course there’s the problem with the servers, and last term it ceremoniously went down for us CLA sophomores availing of priority enrollment. Last night Jenn and I wondered whether it would be any better - why wouldn’t the ITC improve server capacity than, say, provide dial-up access that almost everyone doesn’t avail. As I said somewhere before, quadruple access and everybody will be happy.

The ITC has been getting fire lately, but it’s on other issues, one of them being blocked sites (Yahoo! Messenger included). However, it seems not many have spoken about My.Lasalle’s server capacity, and despite the dial-up fee being “donations” since not everybody’s been using it, we only wonder where this goes.

Anyway, online enrollment week starts on 13 November, and as with every second term of the year the frosh get a stab at enrollment. The schedule is somewhat the same, but the only change - which in paper would lessen the chances of hundreds, if not thousands, of people accessing at the same time and crashing the servers - is that there’s a new layer of eligiblity, so to speak. (more…)