I enjoy reading; so a literary meme seemed like a fun thing to participate in. And it’s a great excuse to talk about one of my favorite authors, so I’m taking the liberty of going thoroughly off topic. This one, I picked up from Emma, who picked it up from ThePickards. The rules: Grab the nearest book. Open the book to page 123. Find the fifth sentence. Post the text of the next 4 sentences on your blog along with […]
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Problems with Blogger
As you may know, Blogger has been plagued by problems recently: service outages have been, in my experience, as regular if not MORE than actual access to the service. I’ve known for ages that I really need to get my butt in gear and convert to something else (WordPress, most likely, since that’s what I have the most experience with.). Well, with these problems I’ve decided that it’s really just necessary: I can’t effectively maintain this blog with these kinds […]
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From the Aviva Directory: 21 Surefire Tips for a Successful Blog Launch. This catalog of valuable advice is definitely worth reading, so I’m going to make this an interactive reading…let’s see how I did! There’s a lot of good advice in here, and I’m going to go ahead and confess to all the warts of this site (in re: this article, that is) as of this date. After reading this, of course, some changes might be in the making! Note: […]
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Well, I’m on the road this week, so posting may be lighter than usual. You never know when a few extra minutes might pop up, but I’m certainly not betting on it! For what it’s worth, I’m in Rochester, NY – picking up a storage unit full of the possessions I left here a year ago when I was moving to Vienna. It’s always interesting to be reminded of the stuff you’d forgotten about in visiting a storage unit – […]
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Publishers Aim to Kill Their Business (Title slightly rewritten from the original.) Actually, it’s a bit more complex than this. Reading between the lines, I believe that what’s going on is that these publishers want to allow search engines to crawl and index their content, but NOT allow search engines to make use of snippets of that content or aggregate the information. Kind of a situation of wanting to have their cake and eat it too, as I see it. […]
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