Monthly Archives: November 2008

7 Things You Didn’t Know About Me Meme

Heinous over at Irregularly Periodic Ruminations tagged me for the 7 things meme.  Hmm…seems that I’ve been struck with a duplicate meme, but there are really many things that people don’t know about me, so I’ll give it another go.  … Continue reading

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Happy Thanksgiving!

Each year on this day, we here in America celebrate Thanksgiving. We all look forward to it since we get together with family and eat way too much. I like to say that I’m thankful for many things in my … Continue reading

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Modifying Your Blogger Header The Blogger Way

A common thing you’ll find when you start blogging is that you’ll want to make changes to your template. If you use the Blogger blog system, it can be easy or extremely difficult depending upon what you want to do. … Continue reading

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UserVoice is a Better Way to Obtain Customer Feedback

Seems like I have been on a kick to garner user feedback from my visitors. I recently installed the Skribit widget to help in that regard, but I found something even better than that, UserVoice. UserVoice helps you to obtain … Continue reading

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Unexpected Results From ClusterShot

Apparently, if you perform a search for ‘waynejohn’ on ClusterShot and this is what you get.  Nice. Terribly amusing. ClusterShot is new site that allows you to upload your photos and allow people to buy them from you.  Since I … Continue reading

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The Cat and the Crow

From the desk of Aww, here’s a nice story of a cat and a crow that befriended each other. Even though the two are not necessarily the same, nor natural friends, they seem to get along just fine regardless of … Continue reading

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2012: I Think I Just Pee’d a Little

I’m pretty much like you I suspect. Wondering what may happen around 2012, but not really taking it seriously. I found a trailer for the upcoming 2012 movie and I need to say that I pee’d a little when I … Continue reading

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Now Showing: The Thanksgiving Turkey Dinner Shopping List

Yes, it’s that time of the year again, so soon.  It’s here on your ass like a blind man creeping towards that pole in his way.  He’s going to hit it, you know he will. As will Thanksgiving also sneak … Continue reading

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I Installed Skribit to Get Your Opinion

Can you tell I was just reading the I do things so you don’t have to blog? I haven’t a clue how well the Scribit widget will go over. I just installed the widget to see what type of responses … Continue reading

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Our 10th Anniversary!

A little self-indulgence if you don’t mind.  Jacq and I met while country dancing at DJ Ranch in Long Beach.  That was over ten years ago, and after a year as friends, we decided life wasn’t to be lived without … Continue reading

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HeyQuiz Says My Cat Is Going To Kill Me

Well, I found yet another quiz site that has requested my email address at the end of the quiz, however this time I found a way to get the results without giving them anything. Here’s how I did it, so … Continue reading

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I Hate Nature

Sit back and relax and enjoy the views of nature that spew forth from this little ditty.  I don’t know where it came from, but I can only thank IceQueen057 on Stumble for pointing it out to me.  If you … Continue reading

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Blogger.com Help – Lesson 20 – Pick New Template Layout

Using the Blogger interface to pick a new template layout couldn’t be any more simple.  This page is by far the easiest to understand, and perhaps one you might never look at again after establishing your blog.  However, there may … Continue reading

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Proposition 8 and Human Rights

Given the recent passing of Proposition 8 here in California, I feel compelled to post this MSNBC video since it speaks to the questions that I have as well about how this might happen. I don’t understand, and I’m trying … Continue reading

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Introduction to HTML Div Tags

What is a div tag? Do you know? Most likely your blog is arranged and structured by using ‘div tags’. Divs are nothing more than boxes on a 2 dimensional surface that can either contain information or other divs and … Continue reading

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Blogger.com Help – Lesson 19 – Edit HTML Layout

There will come a time for those that really get into using Blogger that they’ll want to modify and manipulate their blogger template to do things a little differently than the standard templates provide by default.  Perhaps you want to … Continue reading

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New Photo Gallery and Alaska Cruise Videos

I just completed setting up a photo gallery on my site using a BlogEngine extension written by Danny Douglass.  It was quite easy due to BlogEngine’s extension architecture.  I’d love to hear what you think about it. Due to the … Continue reading

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Friends are Great People

Signe at SigneSays has presented me with a friendship award. It’s the Proximidade Award. She tells me that “This blog invests and believes, in ‘proximity’ [meaning, that blogging makes us 'close' - being close through proxy]. These blogs are all … Continue reading

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Barack Obama Wins!

Today I witnessed what I can only describe as inspiring. Truly inspiring. As the news came out, and we learned that Barack Obama has become President Elect, I became filled with hope again. For most of my life I have … Continue reading

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Don’t Read This – Go Vote Instead!

Alright, the time is here for all citizens of America to get out to the voting booth and cast your ballots for country, state and local measures. Oh, yeah, let’s not forget a vote for who you want to be … Continue reading

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