You’ve been meaning to start. You know you want to write something important. You know you’ve got a story to tell, a design to unfold, a dream to share. You know you can do this. So what’s stopping you? I’ve tried a few of the platforms available, and the best beginner blog sites are Blogger.com [...]
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A Caffeinated 2011
It’s Saturday and it’s December 31st and it’s been a WONDERFUL 2011 around these parts. THANK YOU, EVERYONE, for being a part of the festivities around these parts. Here’s a few of the TOP POSTS – click back through, and let’s build on what’s come before as we head into 2012 How To Build A [...]
Testing Slick Slides
Take Two – testing Slick Slides. After getting nowhere with WP-Cycle without changing the theme (and I’ll be working on that later this week, maybe), I’m going to try something new with another photo rotator, Slick Slides. [SlickSlider name="testingslickslider"] This plug-in appears to be more user-friendly on the inside, but not sure if it’ll do [...]
Testing WP-Cycle
One of the reasons I have this site, this domain, this piece of the internet pie is that I like playing around with stuff. First, I just like tinkering a bit. Second, it means I can try it out to see if anyone else might like having new toys and tweaks on their own sites. [...]
More Bang for Your Content Buck
One of the things I think about with blogging is why people ever come to a site in the first place. What were they looking for? Did they find it? Will they leave comments, or subscribe to the RSS feed, or bookmark it to stop by again later. I don’t spend much time thinking about [...]
09/11/2008
This is the most recent 9/11 post I’ve written, from 2008 on my journal blog. Re-reading this morning, I think it brings out some good thoughts still: This is an assignment from the desk of Mrs. Kirk for her class: This is a formal essay assignment, not a blog assignment. It will be submitted on [...]
Your Site = You Online
Interestingly enough, plenty of people have been questioning whether, now that we have got Google Plus as well, it makes sense to dump your own blog in favour of your social activities in the various social networking sites. And Plus being the latest one joining the already existing crowded club. A few prominent bloggers have [...]
Where’s the New Stuff?
My incoming information stream has reached a saturation point, or at least that’s the feeling I get when I look through RSS feeds of some really great bloggers and find… well, nothing new. The same ideas are getting re-hashed. This isn’t a bad thing. Folks missed it the first time around. New metaphors teach concepts [...]
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