My Own Thoughts

Category: Blogging

  • Why So Long?

    I haven’t been writing here, much, because I’ve had some issues with my online presence. But I finally decided that the problems weren’t worth losing the journaling ability. I will try to remember to make sensitive posts private–and also posts that I don’t remember what all is in them, at least until I’ve had a…

  • Blog to Read

    I found it on blogspot, but it moved to wordpress and then it moved again to IanThomas. It’s interesting reading. March 2010 quotes on silence. Etc. Going to put it on RSS and read.

  • Word 2010: For All Your Revolutionary Ideas

  • Oh no.

    My list of RSS feeds I read on a regular basis is gone as my computer crashed. So what am I going to do? It will be hard to reconstruct that list. I have significant lists that I read to keep myself up on various streams of interest. Update: Hurray! It’s so wonderful to have…

  • I Hate Google

    Once again Google has decided that my teaching site is malware. So once again Google keeps my students from seeing the website. Stupid Google. And Safari and Firefox buy into Google’s stupidity, so that I cannot work on my own website without getting malware notices that do not allow me to update my site. I…

  • Interesting Reading

    Australian “Angel” Saves Lives at Suicide Spot about a man who watches for the suicides, smiles at them, and invites them in for tea. The Love Letters of John Wooden. He’s been writing his wife of 53 years a letter each month on the anniversary of her death. He’s been doing it for 25 years.…

  • Grumpy

    Sometimes I get grumpy. the unexcitingly-named My Own Thoughts, said Assistant Village Idiot. Why did the author have to add that? I don’t know.

  • Benign Delusions

    My wife and I often have very different recollections of events. And not just the little details. Sometimes our shared memories don’t even feature the same mammals, themes, or points. The scary part is that we don’t realize these differences until we have some reason to compare memories, which doesn’t come up that often. Every…

  • Paramedic blog

    Too Old to Work, Too Young to Retire He has a list of other relevant blogs too.

  • Sadness balances understanding

    One of my all time favorite bloggers is retiring as a blogger. I can’t even comment on his last post to tell him I will miss his writing. Before it goes away, you have a chance to go read the amazing things Varifrank wrote. I’m going to be going through my blog and cutting and…

  • Happy Friday the 13th!

    I’m off work today, watching the dog, listening to the rain, and presently cold because my hot flashes dropped off just now. I’ve read on the internet this morning and have seen no good news, except that I did see a wonderful blogger write about her life with a transparency that made me cry: The…

  • “So this is Christmas”

    Andrew Luckabaugh could hardly contain himself. The Fairfax County 9-year-old was aboard a Boeing 777 at Dulles International Airport, bound for the North Pole. Soon, he would be meeting Santa Claus and telling the big guy what he wants for Christmas this year. Read the rest. The whole song about “so this is Christmas” just…

  • You missed the debacle.

    Since the blog was down, I was not able to write frantically about the water main to our house busting and filling the street. So, just know it did. And we were without water when I really needed a shower. So I grabbed clothes and went to a friend’s house. (Thanks, friend!) It’s supposedly fixed…

  • When you move, everything gets lost.

    That’s what happened to my blog this week. Everything was moved to a dedicated host site and apparently the people changed settings when they moved it. But it should all be fixed now. I certainly hope so anyway, because I need my blog.

  • Twitter

    I admit it. I’m a luddite. I joined Twitter, but I can’t figure out how to follow people. I’d Tweet this, but no one I know knows I am on.

  • Blogging video: The power of blogging

    It is interesting and short, just over a minute and a half. It starts off talking about metacognition. Then it talks about being good at blogging. Then it says, “If you aren’t good at it, and you keep writing, you will get good at it.”

  • I went to a poetry reading

    and my style of poetry seems to be back in. That made me sit down and write. I am thinking about doing a poem a day. And posting them online. (Aren’t you lucky?) I thought about getting a new domain name for it, but I am not that interested. If I keep it up for…

  • A diary for a non-linear thinker.

    One of the bloggers I read regularly has written about his creation of a diary for himself which was “not linear.” He does a lot of thinking/brainstorming/planning and playing to come up with his visual diary. I enjoyed his discussion on the history of the days of the week and the pictures of his ultimate…

  • Commenting on blogs

    I have commented just a few times on a particular blogger’s posts. And at least once before my comment was removed from her post. I was confused, since I had been very polite and didn’t think what I said was bad. But I just let it go and went on (after an extended period of…

  • A vicious and lightweight attack

    Yes, an attack can be both vicious and lightweight. The article begins: I assume John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his vice-presidential partner in a fit of pique We all know what assume does, right? McCain vetted Palin. McCain looked at Palin. McCain chose Palin in a fit of brilliant political strategy. the Republican money…