While at the reunion on Saturday, I learned from Bowen that we have another blogger in the family. His name is Mike Baxter, and his blog is called Baxwrtr Blogs. Check it out when you have time. It is a light-hearted and well-written account of life out there in Texas.
Here's a picture of Jane Baxter, mentioned in Saturday's post about the Baxter family reunion. She was capturing the event on video for inclusion in one of her productions for Roots and Branches Archives. Looks like she enjoys her work, doesn't it?
Today I had the pleasure of visiting with members of my family (the Baxter side) at a park in Snellville, which is just outside of Atlanta, for a rare family reunion. I have to confess that I'm not much for family reunions in general. I used to view them as a kind of pop test in which I was expected to remember people's name or understand how each member of the group was related to one another, but I always felt I wasn't up to the challenge. Therefore, more often than not, I would attend them out of obligation but usually with little joy. However, and perhaps this is due to my advancing age, I felt this one was different. I enjoyed it much more than I had expected to.
Robert Scoble, who is a prolific blogger and an interesting and informed Microsoft employee, posted some comments, titled Fear of Blogging, on his blog some time back in which he laid out his rationale for why companies should encourage its employees to blog. The ideas in that post became a part of a on-going discussion that I've carried on with David Steele for a while now, a discussion that I've mentioned before here.
Thanks to Metafilter for this link. It's amazing what folks can do with Photoshop!
Dave Winer posted a draft of the message he plans to send to the participants in the upcoming BloggerCon this morning. As you will note, the conference is not just permitting people to record the proceedings but it is encouraging them to do so. When the links to the audio (or maybe even video) are posted after the fact, I'll make sure they show up here. If it weren't all the way out there on the left coast, I'd love to attend. Guess I'll just have to settle for being there virtually.
I left my home at 9:15 AM, voted, and I was back at home by 10:10 AM. All-in-all, casting my vote was a painless procedure. The only real slowdown in the process occurs when the registrars (or whatever they are called) must check your registration against their «big book» of those who are registered. In an effort to speed up that part of the process, the officials divided the alphabet into groups, A-E, F-K, L-R, and S-Z. But in what has to be a statistical quirk, the line for L-R (my line, naturally) was much, much longer than any other line there. Once I got my authorization to vote, the process of casting my ballot took less than a minute.
In what may be a too-technical development to report to my few regular readers, Nick Bradbury has indicated that soon he'll be adding support for enclosures in FeedDemon, my RSS reader. What that means, Dear Reader, is that I'll soon be able to collect Podcasts via FeedDemon. This is a really welcomed development for me.
Halloween just isn't what it used to be around here. I suppose it may be due to the fact that Halloween occurred on Sunday, a day when we Southerners don't (apparently) wish to celebrate pagan rituals, but I had only two visitors on Saturday night (two little girls dressed in their costumes) and only two 8-10 year old boys on Sunday night at around 8:50 PM. I was surprised by the lack of trick-or-treaters who showed up. The two boys who came by on Sunday weren't even dressed in costumes -- just out for some candy, I suppose.
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