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I did a little tweaking to the WP interface over the weekend but not nearly as much as I’d wanted. Trying to reverse engineer someone else’s code is a bit tricker than I remembered! Thankfully, the creators of the base theme I’m using now were very meticulous about keeping nomenclature clear and used plenty of documentation — thank you guys! For a coding n00blette like me, all that documentation really helps.

Thought progression for the day—
Pazonada posts awkward/neat photos from around Boston’s neighborhoods. He/she gets photos from recent parades, including the recent Dorchester parade. I scroll down and he/she was at the Greek Independence day parade in April (though Greek Independence day is March 25th, as any good Hellene can tell you). The photos are evzone after evzone after evzone, oh hey, but wait, two Macedonian women! Finally, an occasion to wear those outfits!

That lead me, somehow, through the magic ways of t3h intern3ts and WordPress, to this: Greek Blogger Camp! (No worries, the link is in English). Apprently they’re already on their second day of events. I’m really curious to read reports of this event as soon as they’re posted, it sounds like it would be a really fun experience… on Ios no less. Go to the Cyclades, discuss blogging? Sign me up please!

For the curious (like me!), comments on Greek site Metablogging reveal there are about 40 people in attendance. (Sorry, this link is in Greek.) Really wish I was there right now.

And on a less fun but decidedly more practical note, the NYT posted a response to last year’s advice for young graduates. Being decidedly in that group, I enjoyed this article a great deal (as I did last year’s). It all boils down to: “don’t waste your money, save tons.” Sage advice, always worth repeating. It’s discouraging though that pretty much everyone I know has some level of college debt. Juggling it with all your other financial obligations out of the gate (rent, car payments, etc) is a post-graduation rite of passage. Only the strongest will survive?

It’s funny, I was actually part of a story in the Washington Post last year about fresh graduates who lived at home to save money. In a neat little twist a few months after this story went to print, I moved out!

(It was a good exercise being on the other end of the interview as an editor/reporter, though. Ylan Mui, the reporter who interviewed me, really did a great job on the story.)