sduford on Apr 01 2007 | Filed under: Blogging, Rant
The anonymity of online blogs and discussion forums tends to bring out the worst in people. Since almost no one knows who you are online you can say things to people without the requisite courage to say those things straight to someone’s face. You don’t need to face the consequences, of insulting, infuriating, or emotionally [...]
sduford on Mar 20 2007 | Filed under: Blogging
The first blog I ever had was on the topic of Enterprise Integration and was provided by Microsoft. I felt a bit constrained in what I could say on there so I started this blog and ended-up neglecting the old one.
I now feel the need to blog about technology and my work again so I [...]
sduford on Mar 06 2007 | Filed under: Blogging, Photography
Starting today, 4 of my nature pictures will be showcased on the “Living the Scientific Life” blog. Here’s the first one. Another one will be featured every day until the 9th.
Here`s the second, third, and fourth.
sduford on Mar 02 2007 | Filed under: Blogging, Science
With the renewed interest in global warming since the IPCC released its latest report, my TragicPlanet.org blog is really taking off. Traffic for February was nearly twice the traffic I had in January which itself was more then twice the traffic of December! Also, the amount of spam getting intercepted by the Akismet spam filter [...]
sduford on Feb 27 2007 | Filed under: Blogging
There is a new “meme” going around the blogosphere called the “Thinking Blogger Awards”. This meme requires that when someone gets tagged, they must tag five more “Thinking Bloggers” in turn. My friend Sieg over at The Atavist got tagged, and then I got the honour of making his list! So here is my own list [...]
sduford on Feb 27 2007 | Filed under: Blogging, Building in Panama
We finally got the contract and legal stuff resolved with Delfin (our architect) and we have wired him the first payment this morning. We can now start in earnest on designing our new tropical house. We have already sent Delfin a bunch of changes to be applied to his preliminary design. We also sent him [...]
sduford on Feb 26 2007 | Filed under: Blogging, Software
I just discovered that Word 2007 has support for posting directly to several types of blogs including my favourite: WordPress. So I now can leverage all of Word’s editing power and benefit from the spelling and grammar checker.
I am writing this in Word, and then all I have to do is hit “Publish”. Very cool.
sduford on Dec 17 2006 | Filed under: Blogging, Software
If you do not run a blog you may not be aware of this but comment SPAM is a big problem for blogs. People (or sometimes bots) go around the net and post worthless comments on blogs so they can post URLs to their penis enlargement or online gaming sites. Their real goal is not to [...]
sduford on Oct 28 2006 | Filed under: Blogging
I upgraded this site from WordPress 2.04 to 2.05 this morning. You shouldn’t notice any difference, just some minor bug fixes and improved security.
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