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Welcome to my new blog home June 9, 2008

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The following is a cross-post from my blog’s old site:

This blog has moved to a new location.

After much vacillation and angst, I’ve finally registered a couple of domains and moved my blogs away from WordPress.com to a hosted server where I have complete control over, and responsibility for, my blog.

As a blogging platform, I think that WordPress is one of the best (actually, it’s my opinion that WordPress is the best blogging platform, but hey, what do I know?), and the free blog hosting at WordPress.com is the best of the best: consistently being kept up to date; a knowledgeable bunch of users in the forums to provide assistance when needed; and for those that wish more flexibility or features, a number of options that are priced very competitively.  And, best of all, the platform is – what else? – WordPress.  The WordPress software, whether the free service at WordPress.com, or used independently, has a loyal user base that is near-fanatical.  The forums at WordPress.com and at WordPress.org (WordPress.org is where you get the full software package to use on your own servers) are full of knowledgeable, honest and out-spoken users and developers, where everything about the software is discussed – both the good and not-so-good, ideas for development are shared, problems solved, challenges overcome.

I’ve moved my blog, not because I am dissatisfied with WordPress.com – quite the contrary, but because I want more flexibility, and because I want to learn and stretch my knowledge of PHP and web development.  With the free, group hosted service at WordPress.com, one does not have that flexibility, and rightly so.  Who wants to have their blog hosted at a site where the system can be brought down because someone else made a change that didn’t work?

My personal blog "mind? what mind?" has moved:

My amateur radio blog has moved:

My several web sites are, or will soon be, hosted at the excellent 1&1 Internet Inc.

 

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New domain for N9IK May 1, 2008

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Well, I did it.  I’ve been wanting to register a domain name for my “Ham Radio Identity” for quite some time, and when I saw that I could do so, for free (for the first year), using the Microsoft Office Live Small Business service to host it, I jumped at the opportunity to give the service a try.  If I don’t like it, I’ll transfer the domain to another provider later. 

My new domain is n9ik.net, and the blog I’m trying out is at n9ik.net/blog.

 

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My web presence January 18, 2008

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Where can I be found on the web?

Why do I have all of these sites?  Beats the hell out of me.

 

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Merry Christmas, Baby December 25, 2007

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Linda kept saying all day yesterday that the baby was going to be born today. She said it over, and over.

She was right. As usual, her “connection” with the people in her life was at work. Lane got the call this morning at 05:05; his daughter, Mackenzie Jo Strickland, was born at 02:21 this morning, healthy, and was about 8 lb. 2 oz., or thereabouts. He wasn’t exactly sure when he told us, being in a pretty emotional state, as any young father would be who’d been denied the Life Experience of being present when his first child is born.

The baby’s mother, Lanes “ex” girlfriend (I won’t use her name here, out of respect for her), whether she meant it to be or not, executed one of the greatest cruelties possible towards a young man: she did not call him to let him know that she was going into labor, allowing him the time honored privilege of all fathers for generations past – to pace and fret about the maternity ward waiting room, awaiting the magic of seeing his first born daughter, of hearing her first wailing cry, of seeing the purple confusion of features on what must be the most beautiful baby ever born, even if she has been made a bit ugly and deformed from being squeezed through the birth canal. All babies are beautiful-ugly, ugly-beautiful, but no young father ever sees the ugly part, or at least never acknowledges it in his heart of hearts.

Now, as Linda says, Lane is “too nice.” As badly as I know he must have wanted to rush right over the hospital to see this wondrous new life he helped bring into the world, he decided to respect the girl’s wishes, let her sleep, and not arrive until visiting hours at 11:00. Me, if I wasn’t already there, I’d be in the car and on the way before I’d hung up the phone.

Another cruelty pressed upon Lane – the baby is not to carry his name. Mackenzie Jo Strickland, not Mackenzie Jo Strickland-Farrow, or Farrow-Strickland, as Lane had hoped.

The Last Link, commentary by w0jrm September 23, 2007

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James Matherly, W0JRM, has written an opinion piece, focusing on some of the silliness of some blog writers, and their lemming-like behavior. A good, quick read. But don’t expect any bright colors or pictures. Go read his piece to find out why.