Understandable - long time, no posts

I've been pretty silent these past several weeks.  Many things have happened.  For one, I'm now 38 weeks pregnant and waiting impatiently for the pregnancy to finally come to it's inevitable conclusion.  

In the meantime, I volunteered to re-create our lab's website (http://crystal.harvard.edu) in Drupal 7.  This has taken me about two weeks to handle both public and private parts of the site.  There won't be any major layout changes as this is a functional, serious, academic site BUT I've been exploring some new and cool modules such as the Biblio Module. As well as finding the limitations of Views, Private Files in D7.x, profiles in D7.x, etc.  Means many a bug issue posted which makes hubby Scor very happy.

One question - why bother leaving in redundant things just because they've historically 'been there'?  This would apply to profiles but more importantly, something new like private files is completely useless in absence of an access control module.  D7.x doesn't automatically give you access control functionality and you can get around it by using views while 'hiding' your sensitive fields  BUT this doesn't work for files (which I learnt the long way around).  So I'm still waiting for the ACL module to be up and running.  Might take until I come back from maternity leave.  

I suppose while I play the waiting game I could start working on the D7 version of this site.  Nah... will wait until later on in mat-leave phase.