After dinking around with themes for the past oh, 3 months, or for ever, I have finally found one that I like and seems to work really well with Wordpress Widgets. I'll keep tweaking the interface, but as it stands, it really works well.
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Monday, October 9, 2006
Wednesday, October 4, 2006
Back in the “IT” world
OK, so I thought I would try something different. And I did... sort of. I was never 100% out of the IT world. I was doing contract programming. And now... that's what I'm doing again, full time.
I guess it's in my blood. It's what I really want to be doing. There are a lot of variations of things I want to do, ideas I have. The down time gave me an opportunity to look at a lot of things.
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I guess it's in my blood. It's what I really want to be doing. There are a lot of variations of things I want to do, ideas I have. The down time gave me an opportunity to look at a lot of things.
Friday, September 22, 2006
In memory of my Grandmother
M. Irene Ramey Allen Flygare Irwin 1919 ~ 2006 M. Irene Ramey Allen Flygare Irwin, age 86, passed away September 20, 2006 in Salt Lake City, Utah after a short, but valiant battle with pancreatic cancer. Irene was born November 10, 1919 in Green River, Utah to Moad Ramey and Cynthia Adams Ramey. She graduated from Brigham Young University and Price Business School. She married Floyd K. Allen on August 9, 1941 in Green River, Utah. She married Carl Flygare, later divorced. She married Harvey Irwin who passed away July 20, 1991. She was a faithful member of the LDS Church and loved the gospel. She loved to dance, crochet and read. She had many friends at the West Jordan Senior Center, and was loved and will be missed by family and friends. Irene is survived by her daughter, Kaye Krueger; stepdaughter, Judy Irwin; son, Boyd (Susan) Allen; stepsons, Tom (Diane) Irwin and Robert (JoAnn) Flygare; many nieces and nephews; brother, Don (Marjorie) Ramey; 10 grandchildren and 15 great-grandchildren. She is preceded in death by her parents; husband, Harvey Irwin; brothers, Wayne and Eugene Ramey. Funeral Services will be held Saturday, September 23, 2006 at 11:00 a.m. at the Valley View Funeral Home Chapel, 4335 West 4100 South, West Valley City, Utah. The family will receive friends at a viewing from 9:30 until 10:45 a.m. prior to the service on Saturday. Interment: Valley View Memorial Park.
Wednesday, September 13, 2006
The only magazine you’ll ever need
Pretty bold huh? Well, if you're into building a business, running a business, trying to get great business ideas, learn from the most successful business builders on the planet, you need Inc. 500. No, this isn't an ad for the magazine. I don't get any kick back from them. I just know, that pretty much the only magazine I put money down for any more is the yearly 500.
The Internet, for me anyway, has basically eliminated the need to purchase magazines. The information in a magazine is usually 30 or more days old and are so full of advertising it makes reading an article almost impossible. I feel like I chase an article; start on page 1, continued on page 96, continued on page 30, continued on page 55.
Almost every magazine has an online version. It's sort of counter productive don't you think? I know, magazines can go places computers can't, but I don't really care. If I need something to read, I'll just download content to my Treo and read it where ever I want.
If you stopped blogging, would anyone care?
I'm a big fan of ProBlogger.net, where Darrin starts a lot of group writing project (I participated in this one, and hopefully the next one), and it generates a lot activity. What does this have to do with my questions?
Well, what IF you turned your blog off? Would anyone really care? Do your posts move or excite people? Do you even know if you have avid readers?
Tell me about your blog and why the blogosphere is be better off because of you.
I'll start... no, I doubt anyone would really care. Why? Because for the longest time I have just posted what I would consider drivel. Stuff that is important to me but probably not to many others. Sure, I've had my share of good posts. Stories that generated some comments. But in the end, looking back over 3 years of blogging, I've seemed to miss the point. Because I never really had a point.
At one time I wanted to post about NASCAR each week. That lasted for about 3 races, then I stopped. I wanted to post about hockey, that lasted for about as many posts. Then it was music. I don't even think I posted anything on music. I really thought I could make headway posting about tech stuff, for the simple fact I'm a geektoid. But alas, there is so much noise in the space.
As I've learned from ProBlogger.net and many others, is a blog has to have a direction. It has to give the readers some value. Give them something to keep coming back.
So, again, if you stopped blogging, would anyone care?
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