Archive for August 2009

Time passes without notice….

I’m sure everyone understands that. Except children, for whom only time out of school flies while the school year more resembles molasses running uphill in January at the North Pole….
The thing is, that particular statement as used in the post title was something unusual in and of itself. Many years back (about 35 [...]

Our local Forest Service fire control officer

has blown it again, BIG TIME. The Mill Flat fire has been burning (about 10 miles northeast of us) for THREE WEEKS – they let it burn “because it’s in the Wilderness area, not threatening anything, and it just needs to burn some understory”.
Well, they let it burn – and once again, they let [...]

Thesis and the “static front page” situation

I had a lot of trouble with this. A LOT of trouble. Since WP 2.5 or so, the option has been available to use WP’s built in Page setup to do a static “home” or “front” page while having the blog posts as the “inside” of the site. I haven’t done that, [...]

Why blog, anyway?

For me this is definitely a viable question. I’m not using a blog to expand my business (my business is fine where it is, thank you). And I’m certainly NOT using it as a means of conversation/dialogue – blogs are by their very nature soliloquies. If you want conversation, use a forum.
So [...]

Reading writing blogging

I read a lot of things, none of which have much to do with my little reseller/web management business. The only thing I read that pertains to my business is PHP Cookbook. That’s about the driest read you can imagine (unless you’re me, to whom PHP is fascinating!)
One of the things I read [...]