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More about Google Calendar

Think layers, originally uploaded by CaptQuirk.
Since it was released a few days ago, I've been experimenting with Google Calendar and I've evolved a few "shoulds" about how I want to use it.
For instance as this graphic shows, I believe it is best to put some kinds of information into a separate calendar so that you [...]

Glitches and upgrades

Sometimes I’ll go for days on end with no entries on this blog, but on Sunday when Wordpress.com was down most of the day, its unavailability because of some server glitches created an almost uncontrollable urge in me to post something.  Strange, isn’t it?
However, now that it is back up, it appears the powers that [...]

Blogging — Then and Now

It was four years ago today that I began It's News to Me on Blogger with this post. I suppose that date in 2002 was the day I became an official blogger, but as I said in that post I had attempted to create a blog on Tripod on Father's day in 2001, so [...]

Feeling stupid

Back on February 16, 2006, I posted this entry about a workaround for preventing Flock, which is based on Firefox, from opening two tabs when you click on a link from an email. At the time, I thought the fix I had proposed had solved that problem.
However, I began to notice that the problem didn't [...]

Different Approaches

When Mike and Daryl and I met yesterday, our conversation revealed that we each have very different styles of surfing and using the various tools that are available to us. And that, I think, is one of the great values of getting together with other knowledgeable users. You get ideas about different ways [...]

Tagging

Daryl Houston has a nice post this morning titled Wil Wheaton and Tagging that gives some insightful thought to the value of tagging. If you aren’t familiar with what tagging is through such services as Flickr or del.icio.us, you might find this worthwhile reading.

technorati tags: tagging, Flock

iSurf

Indulge me for a moment if you will while I take a short trip down memory lane. Confession, as they say, is good for the soul.
In the early days of the Internet when I discovered something I thought had a “WOW! factor” I would copy the story or the URL and distribute it to [...]

Catching up

Today I’m going to try a slightly different style of blog post. The reason is that today’s post is a “catch up” post, meaning that I’ve allowed a number of days to pass without posting anything here but since those days haven’t been empty, I want to document some of the things I found [...]

What I’ve been up to

For the last few days I’ve been involved in reviewing and editing the documentation for Flock.  After Lloyd seduced me into joining in the effort to produce/improve the documentation for Flock the other night, I read through the documentation that has been created thus far for the purpose of proofreading it.  While do so, I [...]

Weirdness

Suddenly when I check my blog tonight I find that none of the pictures I uploaded to it from Flickr are being displayed. What’s up with that? It’s late enough at night that I’ll worry about that in the morning, but in the words of Yul Brynner in his role as the King [...]