When Congress passed the measure to extend daylight savings time I thought it was a silly move. I still do. They claimed that it would save some great amount of energy while I argued that the amount of energy saved was insignificant. Honestly it is an issue that is not worth much of a fight [...]
After splitting my political blogging onto another domain I realized that the change in focus here would necessitate some other changes such as a more appropriate set of features and a different theme. I realized that I had taken two years of experimenting to finally get the right setup to foster the dialog on political [...]
I have been wanting to get a more suitable domain name for Pursuit of Liberty for some time and I have been wanting to do some less political writing (family journal type) here. I finally took the plunge and purchased pursuitofliberty.net (I’m looking into getting pursuitofliberty.com, but while the current owner mulls multiple offers I [...]
Obi wan Liberali recently asked others if he was considered liberal. Apparently some of his liberal friends thought he was not liberal enough because he is not inflammatory. The discussion that followed in the comments got me thinking about different sites that I have visited and my perceptions. I try to follow sites across the [...]
It’s been a busy month for me personally since I asked about implementing regional classifications for Utah blogs listed on BlogNetNews. I am finally ready to implement regional categories. The options are going to be:
Salt Lake
Utah Valley/Happy Valley
Weber/Ogden
Cache Valley/Logan
Davis
Dixie
Tooele
The classifications will be self-selection - if you want to be identified in a particular region you [...]
Last year I recorded my first year back to blogging. I recorded the statistics at the time and set a goal to average one post per day. In the last year I have:
365 posts
1364 comments
~20,000 spam comments (the spam count got reset when I upgraded to WP 2.5 so the count listed is 9100)
I have [...]
I have been given the opportunity to function at the editor for BlogNetNews/Utah. That is not likely to produce visible changes to the site because the purpose of BNN is to remain neutral while providing an image of what’s happening in the various corners of the blogosphere. Functionally, it means that when people want to [...]
I realized yesterday that I have been losing steam on my review of the Federalist papers partly because the idea of 84 posts is rather daunting. I also realize that I am not obligated to break them up exactly as they were published. I have determined that I could have covered 2 - 5 in [...]
I have been using Darren’s Related Posts plugin (DRPP) for a long time. For my purposes it was the best plugin for showing related posts that I had encountered. After a while I decided that I was not completely satisfied with the way that it seemed to favor more recent posts. I developed a new [...]
I have made a goal ever six months for the last couple of years to review every talk from general conference before the next general conference. I have to make the goal anew each conference because each time I fail - until now. Thanks to my introduction to ScriptureCast I reviewed the final talk from [...]
