Time

Since getting dumped as webmaster for Esperanto-USA, I'm realizing how much time I was spending on supporting/maintaining the website there. I was probably spending at least an hour a day to read everything, post a blog post or story, write a couple of comments, approve/reject comments, write a new poll, check logs, etc. And that's not counting the big efforts I would make periodically to update the software or roll out a new feature, which would cost five or ten hours.

Now, I'm trying to just not go and look. I did look a couple of times: there were dozens of unmoderated comments and evident signs of neglect. Sigh... Well, it's just not my problem anymore.

Instead, I'm using the time on other things: I have more time for stuff at work and more time for my North Star Class. And for my boys. And bicycling. I have to admit that my experience isn't encouraging me to spend my time on other Esperanto activity: I'm just doing less overall.

Since I'm not teaching this semester, I'm finally finding time to fix things that have been bugging me for a year or more. One of my key goals is to provide better oversight of the BCRC staff and provide the tools necessary for them to be fully engaged. I migrated the BCRC staff manual to a place where the staff can help update it. I added a block to reflect comments posted in my BCRC blog on the BCRC homepage. When we added the "Alumni" menu several months ago, it broke the navigation block in the footer. Today, I finally got around to finding and fixing the CSS rule that distributed those pieces of content so that they would all fit. I set up printing on the new advising computers. And while I was doing all of this, I began finally updating the 10.4 radmind image that has been gradually decaying for 2 years. Hopefully, if I can get the image up-to-snuff, we can actually make the old PowerPC machines we have sitting around actually useful again.