BloggingThis

I think blogging is contagious.  First, you start reading a few.  Next thing you know you leave a stray comment or two.  Before you know it, you think, I should throw my ideas out there for the world too.

My lovely wife was a bit suspicious of my blogging at first.  Then, she embraced it and played along.  Soon, she was following many of the blogs I frequent.  I started reading her comments on other folks’ blogs.  Next thing you know, she’s stirring up controversy by babysitter poaching.

Now, she’s launching her very own blog.  Allow me to introduce ThrowinShade.

I have a feeling she’ll be more interesting than me (not hard to do).  I can’t tell you what sorts of things she’s planning to write about simply because I have no idea.  I’ll be following along with you.

– steve

After attending the super nerdy blogger meeting this week I made a promise to myself that I’d update my blogroll.  So, for those of you getting this via the RSS feed, please take a moment to see my progress.For the rest of you — why the heck aren’t you using the RSS feed?  Google Reader anyone???  It will change your life.– steve 

This is very cool.  See photos uploaded to Flickr almost real-time and where they’re from.

Flickrvision

 – steve

As a seasoned WordPress user (all 14 days or so) I have discovered that about half of the sites I visit on the Internet are wp sites.  Even the ones that don’t look like it or have anything to do with blogging are managed via wp.  Don’t belive me?  Try this:  try adding /wp-admin to the end of the address — like this  www.example.com/wp-admin If a logon page appears, voila, its a wp site.

Statistic:  a Google search of wp-login.php returns 2,050,000 results.  I guess that makes me unique, like everybody else.

– steve

Have you ever been to a website that forces you to register your email address to proceed? If it’s not a site you are sure you will ever come back to or care about again, you risk receiving endless junk mail from them if you hand over your real address. I don’t appreciate junk mail. I doubt most people do. Let me share one of my secrets with you. Mailinator.com

Make up a fake mailinator address and register it with the not-so-sure site that you are visiting, then you can proceed at that site. If you need the mail that site sends you, go get it from mailinator. It’s not secure or anything so only use it for stuff you don’t care if the world sees. It’s a brilliantly simple tool, written by a sharp guy. His blog is interesting too, if you’re in to that kind of thing (and you obviously are).

– steve