A website is like any other piece of machinery: it needs tending. If you want to get the most out your site or tailor it to meet a specific need, that will most likely involve widgets, plugins, layout tweaks, or knitting in third party software. With increased functionality inevitable conflicts and performance issues crop up. [...]
Blogging
In his autobiographical book Come and Gone: A True Story of Blue-Collar Bike Racing in America, author Joe Parkin describes how the great Belgian bike racer, Eddy Merckx, was so obsessed with adjusting his seat position to improve performance, that team mechanics were asked to keep tools out of his reach. Many racers at one [...]
Lately I’ve been making a concerted effort to use the RSS feed-reader to aggregate favorite spots in the cybersphere. It’s a practical tool and easy to use for collecting favorite blogs, news sites, Facebookers, or Tweeters under one roof. So many are way ahead of me on this, but I’ve finally realized what a time [...]
Regularly producing useful content for a blog can be a challenge. Should we post lists of suggestions for solving a problem; links to content on another site with accompanying added value comments; personal or local news; maybe an embedded video from a YouTube account; or a guest post from a friend or someone else with [...]
