Random thoughts and observations
Thanks to Sue I discovered a blogthing and found my spiritual number is 7: You bring knowledge and wisdom into people’s lives. You are an expert in many fields, and you give excellent advice. Right now, your life is about perfecting your skill set. You are almost a virtuoso at the thing you love best. [...]
I’m not a big fan of writing editorials. I stopped them at Myrtleford and Kalgoorlie, except when I had something that had to be said. The Border Watch has a policy though to run them, and I accept that responsibility. Opinion pieces for daily papers can be tricky, especially somewhere like Mount Gambier where we [...]
John Lamansky asked WordPress bloggers to name three underrated plugins and Jeff Chandler picked up the idea at Weblog Tools Collection. I mentioned two plugins at John’s site which I don’t think get as much attention as they deserve. 1) Javascript in posts: WordPress allows Javascript in php files and sidebar widgets, but not in [...]
Thanks to Delmer I took up the Flickr photo meme. The concept: Type your answer to each of the questions below into Flickr Search. Using only the first page of results, pick one image. Copy and paste each of the URLs for the images into Big Huge Lab’s Mosaic Maker to create a mosaic of [...]
I committed space on my sidebar yesterday to BlogUpp after reading a positive review. It claims to be “the easiest recipe ever for a more effective and interactive web promotion.” BlogUpp uses an iframe in the sidebar. The theory is that users promote two other blogs/sites in exchange for 90 percent cross-promotion back to their [...]
