Archive for the ‘Musings’ Category

WordPress Site Maps – Three Ideas

Saturday, January 30th, 2010

I love organizing and presenting data in pleasing formats. WordPress blogs have a wealth of database goodies that describe posts and static pages. Seeing your entire blog contents listed on one page can be a visual feast. Here, in chronological order, are three ideas to consider: Hand-Made Site Map When ...

Winter Wonderland – Living through Blizzard of ‘09

Sunday, December 20th, 2009

Sheldon and I traveled from Virginia to Terre Haute, Indiana to pick up Dominique from Indiana State University. The first afternoon, we were sitting outside at the Morton Travel Plaza in West Virginia, eating sandwiches, playing chess and feeding the birds. Two days later, the three of us were huddled in ...

Smoking the Information Pipe

Wednesday, October 14th, 2009

Photo by j o rdan It has been fashionable to equate intense experiences with crack cocaine. That is twisted, perverse and sooo effective. So move outa my way as I jump on the crack-as-metaphor bandwagon. I am finally admitting that I am an information ...

Bear Right: Alcohol, Abortion and Arms

Sunday, September 6th, 2009

Photo by takomabibelot Getting Our Bearings One of the biggest problems that plagues rational beings is debating on dual planes. The use of emotionally charged words invokes irrelevant images, which cloud the judgment and usually obscure any attempt to make ourselves understood. … Once a discussion has reached enough thinkers, chaos perforce, ensues. In ...