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Nov 13
Oct 27
If you look through my previous posts you will notice a lot of extraneous characters scattered about haphazardly. This happened after my website was hacked. I first thought it might be a further hack but it turns out it is a result of my site having been moved to a newer server, with theoretically greater security, after the hack was corrected. I think it is a problem with the character set on the old server databases vs. the new one.
I will be looking into fixing the problem if it continues, but if it disappears from now on I will probably just ignore the old posts. They are readable.
Oct 05
I was out yesterday and although it was a bright, sunny day, fall was definitely making itself known. The air was crisp. When the wind blew, and it did blow briskly at times, it blew right through you. It is surely that time of year and the calendar is only needed for confirmation.
Since I have retired, I have found myself driven by these seasonal changes more than before. When I was working, it wasn’t nearly as sharp edged as it is now. I was aware of the seasonal metamorphosis, but other than the short days and a lot of driving in the rain, it was happening over there somewhere. Now, as the yard goes into hibernation and the outdoors loses its charm, my whole focus moves indoors. One of the things that seems to then happen is all of my computer projects finally get more time. This blog is only one of those projects but I hope to use it to explore some of the others and hopefully you will see a little more life here in the future.
One thing you can watch is the Cycles tab on the front page. I am going to build a little summary of the generational model of social cycles that forms the basis for the TimePage web site that is my main contribution to the cyber world. Â My draft is coming along but it is still too long for its main purpose. Â And, of course, I am going to keep working on the Family tab. Â That has to be coordinated with my family tree and other genealogical resources so it is a little more complicated.
Jul 25
I have been a little distracted lately. My daughter, and youngest child, got married last weekend and although it has been a wonderful time, with visiting relatives and all of the festivities, it will be good to get back to the humdrum of everyday life. Hopefully you will see a little more activitity here in the future.
Feb 12
So many possibilities.
I have been thinking about what I want to do with this blog. I have come up with a few possibilities. All of my immediate ideas fall into the general catagory of documenting my TimePage adventures in the past, present and future. The TimePage has a blog but I have decided to limit it to discussion of the TimePage ideas and to serve as a supplemental repository for content related to the TimePage and the subject of History. Therefore I am going to pursue some, and hopefully all, of the following topics in this blog.
- History – I have wanted, for some time, to put down in writing the history of the TimePage. It has been online for 12 years now – an eternity in internet time – and I need to document it while I can recall it.
- Genealogy – One of my other time eaters is my Family Genealogy. I have noticed that the generational history of the timepage is a natural fit with the generation in my Family Tree. I have made a feeble attempt to incorporate the one into the other but a lot more needs to be done.
- Philosophy – Just recently I made a major decision regarding the direction I want to go with the TimePage. The TimePage is long overdue for a major overhaul and it wouldn’t be worth it if I didn’t bring something new to the table. This philosophy begs to be organized and written down before I begin the ugliness of redoing the pages.
- Online Direction – I think I need to think out loud a little bit about what I really want to do with my online presence. I think I have drifted into a plan recently but, again, it needs to be fleshed out a little better. This is where the rubber meets the road.
- Personal – Lastly, a place to document my opinions and my uncertainty about the other things in my life. Books are a big part of my experience and I am going to be talking about them for sure (see previous post).  Pictures are going to be shared. I don’t know at what level yet, but they are also an important bit of my existence. And maybe a little about movies, music and TV, but not as much. I won’t be talking about my family, as much as I love and cherish them all. I don’t presume to know what they would like to share with you all, so I won’t try.
Feb 12
Over the years I have started and discarded a few blogs and a few websites. Today, I probably have a half dozen or so active sites that I set up for really good reasons at the time, I’m sure. But I am getting a little bored with all of the “social” sites, and sharing blogs out there. Therefore, I think I am going to close a few of them down and back off to just the ones in which I am actually providing content, and this one. This site is obscure beyond reason, and it will essentially just be for me, but I want to have a single open place to call my own.
The one exception to that general plan is Twitter. Right now, for reasons I have yet to decipher, I like Twitter. There is a feed on the front page of this blog for my last few posts on Twitter, as well as links back to the last few posts in my TimePage blog, The TimeLog.  Those two and what I write here will pretty much cover my internet presence.
Well, here goes nothing.
