My son, Jeff, and his wife, Deanna, and my grandson, Dustin, are visiting this weekend from Georgia. Blogging will be light, because they are here to help me do some maintenance and rearranging of my house. I'm looking forward to how things will look after all is said and done. I'll return to my life on the Internet at the beginning of next week.
On occasion I have been one of the resources to which a friend has turned for help with his computer questions and issues. Last night I received an email from him asking my advice once again. His son, whom we'll call Ben, enters a large midwestern university this fall as a freshman, and he needs a laptop. My friend, whom I'll call Bob, wants advice about what things he needs to consider when making the purchase of a laptop for Ben's college work.
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 maybe I should celebrate that as the date that I became a blogger. Or maybe I have yet to become a blogger and might be more appropriately considered an Internet litterbug or defacer. In any event, I'm still at it after all these years.
First these comments from the New York Times article "Now Playing on YouTube: Web Videos by Everyone" ...
I suppose all of us have heard it said many times that «the more you put into something, the more you'll get out of it.» And my recent experiences in being involved in the Flock community only bears out the wisdom of that statement.
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 interesting but didn't post. Doc Searls and Dave Winer both seem to use a style like this (though they post contemporaneously), in that they post short posts with links to the items and less commentary about those links than I do. So I'll try that with this one and see how it goes. So here goes.
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 learned a few things I didn't know. For instance, I found out ...
I don't always watch the CBS Evening News, but I did last night for their final story, and I wouldn't have missed it for the world. I was so hoping they would make the story available on the Internet so that I could point you to it too, and today I found it.
Connor Michael Nelson is approaching 10 months old now (on March 1), and he's already getting into the family tradition of playing with what Carole used to call «the seasonal ball.» If he turns out to be a basketball player, however, he'll be the first male in the family with any skill at playing that game. However, I think this photo of him is really cute, so I wanted to share it with you.
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