Tag Archive 'writing'

Two New Sites Worth Taking a Look At

Posted by Kirk M on 25 Aug 2007 | Tagged as: Blogging, New sites

In my travels through the Blogosphere this past week I came across two new sites that snuck into my brain and kept hollering at me until I went back for a second and then a third look. I liked what I saw.
And I never thought red layouts would be so easy going on the eyes.

The [...] Read more »

Upgrading Old Reliable

Posted by Kirk M on 19 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Life at home

And “Old Reliable” is a 2003 HP Pavilion a645c desktop computer, mid-tower type, 200gb HDD, 512mb ram (not shared!), AMD 3400+, standard DVD drive plus a DVD Burner and a 9 in 1 media reader thrown in just for fun. The display is a 17″ HP flat panel display that came with the original system. [...] Read more »

A New Keyboard, an Upcoming Phone Call and ABW

Posted by Kirk M on 09 Jul 2007 | Tagged as: Just Thinkin

Such things be happening here in my small corner of the Blogosphere these last couple of days not the least of which is a finally buying myself a new keyboard.
One of the most frustrating things for me about this art of blogging is the typing end of things…meaning I’m not one…a typist that is. I’m [...] Read more »

Blogging Metaphor Final List

Posted by Kirk M on 16 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Blogging

I recently took part in a group writing effort for Successful Blog in which blogger’s were asked to come up with a metaphor they thought described the art of blogging the best. The basis for this was how would you attempt to explain blogging to someone who had no idea what blogging was all about. [...] Read more »

All the Blog’s a Stage. A Blogging Metaphor

Posted by Kirk M on 09 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Blogging, Just Thinkin

And we are not merely players but the playwrights, directors, prop managers, stage managers and caterers. We set the stage, the scenery, lighting and the mood and our readers are not only our audience and critics but players as well. And like the theater, attending other plays is a must whether to praise, criticize or [...] Read more »

Still Down But "Right-Brained"!

Posted by Kirk M on 08 Jun 2007 | Tagged as: Just Thinkin

Another day down and another day to think of this that and the other thing. The first thing that I thought of was that I had to at least make an appearance at the blog today. Yesterday and the day before there was absolutely no way I could have possibly gotten out anything intelligible whatsoever.
Another [...] Read more »

The Myth of Multitasking and the New Blog Owner

Posted by Kirk M on 21 May 2007 | Tagged as: Blogging

All my working life one of the few phrases that has always stuck out in my mind like the proverbial sore thumb included the word multitasking. How many times have I heard one person telling another or even myself; “You have to learn to multitask”.
Bah!
Don’t fool yourself. There is no such thing as multitasking. If [...] Read more »

Headaches, rotten headaches

Posted by Kirk M on 28 Dec 2006 | Tagged as: Life as a veteran, Life at home

I used to get migraines quite often up until a few years ago. Things were so bad at one time that I would have one of these nasties 4 to 5 times a month and no day went by, for longer then I care to remember, when I didn’t have a headache of some kind [...] Read more »

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