I guess there really are no rules for managing a blog. Somehow it seems like you’re cheating when you backdate entries. But there are no rules, right? I’m still not sure if this is a (public) diary/journal, letter to friends and family, some ego exercise, or all of the above. You certainly feel that you [...]

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Blogger re-established the ability to publish to your own domain name, so please update your bookmarks. (You should have been automatically re-directed.) I’m still working on getting just verticalbones.com working, but it’s been awhile since I mucked around with CNAME records and DNS, so cut me a break. Or, laugh at me if the domain [...]

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Honestly I think the only people that care about how a blog looks are the authors. It’s really about the content, right? Even though my template looks like a bazillion other blogs, it is clean, easy to navigate and does the job… I was holding my breath when I upgraded my template and only had [...]

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Well, this is my 99th post to my blog, coincidentally announcing the posting of 99 pictures from Florence. In the Permalinks sidebar, I have also posted a link for archived photos. One day I will get the photos transfered over to Flickr. It’s a shame Google didn’t buy them as well as Blogger so we’d [...]

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Need to work through fixing my template after Blogger ate it unexpectedly. Unfortunately I did customize the links along the right hand side. Would be nice if they automatically backed up your template! Update: Well, things are basically back in working order, though I need to get my traffic counter installed again, and I lost [...]

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