I’m feeling every one of my 65 years at the moment. I just saw a story about Facebook banning some photos of women breastfeeding their babies. The mothers involved are howling in protest. “Breastfeeding is natural!” “Breastfeeding is normal!” Okay, I acknowledge being of a different generation. I acknowledge my personal shyness and modesty about … Continue reading Much ado about breastfeeding photos
Here’s a quick question for bloggers and blog readers. Do you ever use or refer to the calendars posted on many WordPress blogs? Do you use them to remind yourself what day it is, or to see what posts, if any, appeared on a specific date? Did you even know that clicking on highlighted dates … Continue reading About those sidebar calendars
Washington gets a little less interesting now, with Alaska’s Senator Ted Stevens taking his leave. Seven felony convictions just before losing his re-election bid. Yep, he’s definitely out. It seems only right that a convicted felon not be re-elected, although it was a very tight race. And it was a huge relief for some of … Continue reading Sen. Stevens: We’ll miss your wit and wisdom
This is a test of WordPress’s incorporation of PollDaddy polls today: Oh, that’s so cool. It was a lot of work designing and integrating those same polls a couple of months ago. Now it’s so simple a caveman can do it. Continue reading WordPress and PollDaddy make sweet music
Please excuse our interruptions in the next few days as we get some new equipment up and running and attend to some of the other demands of real life — supermarket, gas, pharmacy, birthday, babysitting — all of which are carefully calculated to give the old typing fingers some downtime. Continue reading We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming
WordPress announced a new “sticky post” feature this morning. I didn’t know this was in the pipeline but I love anything that adds flexibility to my blog presentation. I’ve seen it used on game forums and boards and it can be extremely useful for keeping a hot topic at the top of the page. Note: … Continue reading Testing: This is WP’s new sticky post feature
