Yesterday in a series of email exchanges, Mike and Daryl and I discussed how we might modify what we are doing with the KnoxBloggers group so as to encourage more people to participate and at the same time place less demands on those with busy schedules. We came up with some ideas that we think [...]
Back in the late 1970s while I was still a member of the S.P.E.B.S.Q.S.A., Inc. (now called the Barbershop Harmony Society), I was privileged to be a member of a quartet called the Fun Addicts. Bob Wilson (tenor), Forrest Umberger (lead), and Phil Petty (bass) were the other members. We sang together all over the [...]
With apologies to David Bowie, I’ve made a few “ch-ch-ch-changes” just for variety’s sake. I’ll probably let the site stay like this for a while to see how I like it and how you react to it. Feel free to comment, pro or con, in the comments to this post. I can always revert to [...]
An article in today’s New York Times (free registration required) discusses the many, occasionally-confusing widgets a reader of a blog might encounter and suggests that a blog author would do well to explain them to his readers. Being the nice guy that I am, that seemed reasonable to me, so I thought I’d give you [...]
My friend Jane Hascall’s husband Benny, who is only 60, suffered a stroke on December 6th. Fortunately he is recovering at one of Colorado’s finest rehab facilities, the Craig Rehabilitation Center in Englewood, CO. With the assistance of Benny’s daughter, Katie, Jane utilized one of that facilities’ excellent services to create a web site where [...]
While visiting Carole here in Georgia for the New Year’s holiday, I only have access to the Internet through a dial-up connection, and boy am I reminded of how thankful I am for my connection through Comcast. Dial-up access is agonizingly slow! It helps me understand why Carole is less enthusiastic about accessing the Internet [...]
My son, Mike, chastised me, quite rightly, in a comment he left to my last post, pointing out that I hadn’t made any posts here since the 21st. As I explained to him in my response, just because I’m not posting to this blog that doesn’t mean that I am not posting to the web. [...]
You’ll note that I’ve added a new plugin, developed by Alex King, to my WordPress installation. It is the “Share This” link at the bottom of each post. With it, you can easily add the post to your favorite social bookmarking system or send it by email to a friend. It is okay to click [...]
Exhausted from a long day of work, late last night Victor passed along a link to an informative article in The Economist, called “Going Pro.” He asked that either Mike Neel or I share it with the rest of the Knoxbloggers group as a follow up to his presentation last Wednesday. Mission accomplished, and thanks [...]