I was a bit disappointed yesterday after installing version 2.0 of Windows Live Writer that it didn’t give me the ability to create new Pages or to add Categories from the interface in WLW. So this morning I went to the WLW MSN Group and joined it where I found a thread describing the same [...]
While chatting with my friend Mike Neel in Skype’s IM, he informed me a new version of Windows Live Writer was available so I downloaded it and have just installed it. This is my first post from it. Mike informed me that it has more support for WordPress’s features, which pleases me greatly. One thing [...]
A week ago today I posted some thoughts about the tools I am currently using to discover and understand the traffic I get here at my blog. Several of you commented on that post and offered some helpful suggestions (i.e., W3counter — thanks Dan Grossman) and encouragement, all of which were much appreciated. Since that [...]
I virtually never take a vacation, last year’s cruise to Alaska with Carole being a spectacularly notable exception, but I do take virtual vacations. For instance, I am participating in two vacations, vicariously and virtually this Memorial Day weekend, with my son Mike and his extended family at Ft. Walton Beach, FL, and with Andy [...]
I went to the doctor to have my eyes examined on Monday the twenty-first. It had been two years since I had had an exam and it was time, if for no other reason than to check for glaucoma. As it turns out, my “dress” glasses, meaning the ones I wear everyday when I go [...]
In this post, I want to talk a bit about how I am monitoring who is viewing my blog and how often they appear to be doing so. When I began blogging back in June of 2001, it was solely for the purpose of finding out whether I could post things on the web. Some [...]
I sometimes believe the wheels of technological progress would screech to a halt without the use of acronyms. And facility with acronyms seems to be the shibboleth that divides the technological cognoscenti from those who are lost in space when they walk into Best Buy or Circuit City. Seniors, in particular, find dealing with some [...]
Matt Mullenweg, the founding developer of WordPress, announced this morning that version 2.2 of WordPress is available. This is very welcome news indeed, because among the other things it includes is “A new Blogger importer that is able to handle the latest version of Google’s Blogger product and seamlessly import posts and comments without any [...]
This is from an email I sent to a couple of friends this morning about the tendency to forward messages we receive advocating activism to resolve some problem we see as important. DP> Sorry, XXXX. This one’s older than the other one. See DP> http://www.snopes.com/politics/gasoline/gasout.asp. PP> I guess I want to do something about high [...]