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 [...]
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Looking at stats again
Wednesday, May 30, 2007
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 [...]
Watching you watching me
Wednesday, May 23, 2007
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 [...]
Giving back
Wednesday, May 2, 2007
Yesterday I learned another two-part lesson. I was trying to figure out how to change the stylesheet for one of the blogs that I administer so that it would indent the first line of all the paragraphs in a post. I had already gone to the W3Schools website, a great resource by the way, and [...]
RSS in plain English
Tuesday, April 24, 2007
This video is courtesy of Lee LeFever. Thanks, Lee. Click To Play There are two types of Internet users, those that use RSS and those that don’t. This video is for the people who could save time using RSS, but don’t know where to start.
Google Notebook gets help
Friday, April 13, 2007
The other day when I was talking about Google Notebook, I mentioned that I searched for help on this new tool but couldn’t find any. I don’t know whether it has just been added or whether I just discovered it, but now I see it does have a Help section. There is also a Tour [...]
Google Makes Fathers Unnecessary
Monday, April 9, 2007
My son Mike has frequently called me while driving around and asked that I look up some business on Google and give him the location or the phone number. We’ve jokingly referred to that as his connecting with “Dear-Old-Dad Central” or “the Mother Ship.” However, now such calls are no longer necessary. Google has introduced [...]
Google 24/7
Friday, March 30, 2007
Back in May of last year I decided to relinquish the email account I’d been maintaining for more than 10 years and to rely solely on Gmail as my email server of choice. That choice saved me $21.95 per month that I was foolishly spending with an ISP just to keep that email address alive, [...]
My thoughts about Shutdown Day
Sunday, March 25, 2007
As I indicated I was going to do, I didn’t turn on my computer at all on Saturday the 24th, and by so doing I observed Shutdown Day 2007. In general, I’d have to say that the day was very pleasant, quite productive and surprisingly easy to do. Some of you who commented on my [...]
Testing ground
Wednesday, March 21, 2007
My blog has always been just a place for me to test whether I could put things on the Internet and a way for me to comment on things I find interesting as I surf and experiment with them. Although I’ve been blogging now for about 5 years, I’ve never added advertising to this blog [...]