Monday It's definitely summer. We're starting out the day at 76°. And the crickets and the cicadas are making sure that quietness doesn't intrude upon our morning. I pulled up the WordPress app this morning and it informed me that this is my 15th anniversary on WordPress. That original WordPress…
Friday the 13th I drove my wife to a Doctor's appointment this morning... While she was in to see the doctor I pulled up Facebook on my phone and was just scrolling thru the posts. I came upon a tribute to Marie Freeman that sounded beautiful but sad... After following…
Stepping out this morning wasn't pleasant. With a temperature of 78°and a humidity of 87% it felt too warm and too muggy for early June. One of the first things I saw this morning on my WordPress app was a happy anniversary note. It seems this is my 14th anniversary…
The past couple of weeks have found me spending more time outside with my 18 month old grandson and less time living online. Of course the weather has made it easier to be outside enjoying spring than inside adding to a blog. These spring days are rapidly feeling more and…
Coffee Muses require solitude...Having a non-blogging significant other across the table from you as you wander through your morning routine tends to put you in a different place. Not a wandering the web, not a reading email with an open mind, not a "oh yea" that's neat kind of place.…
It is beginning to be an everyday thing. A DM from someone on Twitter that's not...Leading to a fake login page... Another day, another phishing or malware scam on Twitter. It seems like these are happening entirely too often, and the reason is that people continue to ignore common sense.…
Two years ago we were planning our first fall trip to the Blue Ridge Mountains of North Carolina and Virginia...Life has conspired since then to keep me from the mountains I love. I look forward to next year and a visit to the mountains to beat all of our past…
For many years, if anyone asked what I wanted to do when I grew up, I'd say I wanted to "build websites". As I kept reinventing the job I did for the company I spent my adult life with, my coworkers would kid me on occasion. I would tell them…
It was time for a bug fix upgrade yesterday. It wouldn't be so bad if I didn't have so many places to run the "automatic upgrade". And every upgrade of WP brings with it a number of rolling plugin upgrade. It seems that each upgrade causes an unforeseen problem with…
I haven't vanished from the face of the earth...I haven't taken ill from the heat and lack of rain...I haven't been shipped off for failing to amuse my wife (though I'm sure see is thinking about it)...What I am doing is exploring the idiosyncrasies of a new theme for WordPress…
It looks like the recent round of upgrades to both WordPress and Advertising Manager has screwed up the layouts of my blogs totally. Originally, I was using Adsence Manager as a Widget Control Panel. Paste any code into an add, give it a name, it showed up in your widget…
One of the things I like most about this thing we call Blogging is number 2 on Patry Francis' list. And she ranks up there at the top of my amazing people list. Patry published this list back around Thanksgiving in Twenty O'Six. I stumbled across it again today as…
I seem to enjoy finding blogs written by authors. One of the latest I've wandered across is by Fiona Robyn. She posted an article yesterday that popped up via my feed reader today. The title of the piece was How To Slow Down. I found this section in particular spoke…
Some quick observations of no importance to anyone but me... ++++++++++ Living for a week or so on a laptop belonging to someone else is frustrating to say the least. Even a laptop that you set up for that someone else. Even with admin rights and my own profile, even…
The topic of the night here in the US is a rumored deal in the works between Google and Twitter. Michael Arrington reported tonight that acquisition talks are in late stages, then revised his report with another source close to at least one company saying that the talks were in…
