Rain soaks the Mid-Atlantic

It’s raining steady outside my window and all over the Mid-Atlantic region today. There is a small (very small) possibility of thunderstorms today, but I don’t see that happening for the Lancaster area, nor anywhere north.

Rain will likely accumulate to less than an inch today… If I had to say a number, I’d say 0.75 inches. Currently (at 1:00 PM) MU has received just under 0.6 inches thus far today, with a few more shots of rain on the way.

Tomorrow the rain will be gone for the most part but the clouds will continue to linger during the day, not clearing out until around Dinner time. Temperatures will, like today, hover in the low to mid-50s.

Tomorrow night will be very cold- near-freezing temperatures! The clear skies will help temperatures go low and I would not be suprised to see a low of 32 overnight.

Wednesday: Mostly sunny with a few clouds in the afternoon, leading to the possibility of a few showers overnight. High: mid-upper 50s.

Thursday: Clouds clearing leading to a sun-and-cloud filled sky most of the day. High: Nearing 70.

Friday: Clear most of the day with very warm temperatures. A nice, typical Spring day. High: Upper 70s.

Saturday: Warm, with the possibility of some afternoon showers (to ruin any picnics, of course- haha). High: Upper 70s.

That’s all for now!

Millersville Water Tower and Lightning

Millersville Water Tower and Lightning

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Updates are on the way!

And now for something completely different

I’m going to start to use this blog to post about my attempt to use WordPress to run my college’s newspaper. I hope to attract other college newspaper webmasters who can share their experiences.

First, a few questions and answers:

1. Why WordPress? Why not Drupal?

I know WP pretty well. I like it. I know there’s a huge community for support and it’s always being updated and worked on. I was on the verge of using Drupal but I decided I would at least try and make WordPress work.

2. Why not just use CollegePublisher, like most college papers?

Because I don’t want to. College Publisher is easy. It’s free- they simply require that you have their advertisements on your site, so they make money. So really, it’s not free: it costs space. I don’t like that. And I think I can do a better job with WordPress than I would with College Publisher.

3. Technical Details and such…

I’m using WordPress 2.5, and I’ll update as new versions come out. I’m using DreamHost as my host right now, on a current client’s website in a secret sub-directory. I plan on switching the already registered domain and hosting to site5 when needed, as I think they will be a much better host than dreamhost (but that’s a whole ‘nother story).