As we approach the time to make New Year's resolutions, I'd like to offer a suggestion or two that I think can help you keep your PC running smoothly and enable you to take more control of what's going on with it. If you already know about these resources, then all the better. If these suggestions are news to you, then I'll have achieved my objective.
Inspired by my success earlier today at resolving the problem of my «Comments» link not incrementing the number when a comment was made in response to a specific post, I've now fixed another problem I'd been planning to fix when I could figure out how. It had to do with «PermaLinks,» and you'll now see it below this post and the others on this page. What are they? And what can you do with them?
Last night I discovered to my chagrin that in my post on December 13th about the blogs I read frequently, I mistakenly called Jay Rosen, the author of PressThink, Jason Rosen. I have now edited the post so that his name appears as it should, thereby sweeping my error under the rug, so to speak, but the experience helped me discover a way to fix a problem this blog has had for some time now. I discovered the faux pas when I accidentally clicked on the «comments» link at the bottom of the December 13th post rather than the one at the end of yesterday's post. There I found a message from Mr. Rosen himself in which he told me about the error (you can see his comment and my subsequent ones by clicking on the «comments» link at the bottom of «My Blog Reading List»).
Thirty-nine years ago today our family gathered for Christmas morning breakfast, as was its custom, at Uncle Pat's restaurant in Stone Mountain, Georgia. While the location of the breakfast often differed through the years, the tradition of having a breakfast feast together has become an enduring part of our family's celebration of the holiday. Being Southerners, our breakfast consisted of scrambled eggs, bacon and sausage, grits, biscuits and butter, orange juice and various desserts that were always around during the holiday season.
Recently in a newsletter that I distribute periodically to a small circle of family and friends, I recommended a browser add-on called Smart Explorer because it provides you the ability to define «smart groups» of websites and allows you to open them simultaneously with one click. One of the smart groups I defined in my copy of Smart Explorer is called «blogs,» and it consists of seven blogs that I check regularly to see what they are advocating or what they have found out since I last read them. These seven blogs illustrate some of the ways blogs differ from one another and a variety of ways that they can be maintained. Today I thought I'd introduce you to those blogs and point out some of the things that are unique about each of them.
I wrote what follows on 11/06/97 and I just reread it this morning. Since I don't think I ever published it anywhere, I thought I'd recycle it here for any who might enjoy reading it.
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