Archive for the ‘Blogging’ Category

Cousin Eddie: “Twitter Was Full!”

Apparently, Twitter had a problem with frozen timelines today.  The fail whale must be working overtime.  Let’s give him a much-deserved break and have Cousin Eddie do the honors…

Curmudgeon 2.0: We’re All Larry King and Andy Rooney Now

This week, I finally started using Twitter (@devdog).  I am a longtime Twitter skeptic but I’m forcing myself to give it a shot.  I need to see where it fits in for me, given that I already use LinkedIn for professional networking, Facebook for personal stuff, and this blog for general musings.
As I was checking [...]

Great List of “13 Most Essential” WordPress Plugins

I use WordPress to power this site and have been thrilled both with the core blogging components and the great plugin ecosystem.  I’m glad I avoided the temptation to roll my own little blogging system this time.  It would have been a fun exercise, but I wanted to get up and running quickly and WordPress [...]

Hello, World!

I’ve been meaning to start a personal blog for almost 10 years.  Looking back, I really wish I had.  The last decade is already a blur… 2 kids, 4 jobs, 1 layoff, our first house, a move to Kansas, our second house, dozens of work projects, countless lines of code, some brief forays into music, [...]