Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…

It was a little over a week ago today that my daughter went to her first day of first grade.  She seems to be adjusting OK, but it is still very scary.  The thing thats odd for me, is that the first real clear memories I have of long periods of time are in first…

This is just a quick test of the WYSIWYG plug-in I just downloaded.  This should make for some easier post formatting, but I’m still looking for a tool that will let me drop images straight in to the post without having to upload first.  Leave me a comment if you know of anything.  One of…

Sometimes I just don’t know when to quit. I have been really swept up in this whole podcast, RSS and blog world for the last year and I just can’t contain my enthusiasm sometimes. I have been pushing the IT team at work to get RSS feeds set-up as an alternate delivery model for information…

Yes, that’s right, I am coaching soccer again. This time it’s my son’s 4-5 year division in the YMCA league. We’ve had a couple practices and the second couldn’t have been more different than the first. There are a total of 10 kids on our team, 8 boys and 2 girls.    There were only 6…

For the few people that actually stop by here, I thought I would let you know that my house is up for sale. We just signed a contract on a new house in Crittenden, which is a little further out in the boonies, but it is exactly what we have been looking for for the…

I’m in the process of moving my old blog based on a Plone plug-in called COREBlog to the new one I just set-up on WordPress. I’ve outlined the reasons for my changes in previous posts, but the migration is turning out to be a real pain. I’m really starting to question the value of moving…

OK, the last one didn’t work so well, so I’m trying again. This time I’ll check the thumbnail button and see if that helps. Also, trying to edit the HTML of the image to see I can change the location.

Another reason I wanted to move to WordPress from Coreblog = the availability of offline blogging tools like w.bloggar. This is just a quick test to make sure it works with my setup. I often have things I want to blog about when I am offline, or can’t get to my server, so if this…

iZ is from Zizzle – Engadget – www.engadget.com A quick test of the quick link blogging tool in WordPress…this could be very nice!