Farewell Post?
I had a couple of unrelated things happen lately that combined to put rather a grinding halt to this blog.
In the first, I was scammed into buying some illegal software. I’m still pissed off about it but that doesn’t ring the bell or get my money back. Since the beginning of my Internet adventures, spotting scams and alerting my readers has been important to me. Obviously, I’m not the expert I believed myself to be.
In the second happening, a dear friend I’m rapidly losing to a battle with COPD told me that if I’m going to “waste my time writing for the Internet . . . write about something that matters”.
Ah, the old ‘what really matters?’ dilemma. What does really matter? Shall I write about air? Water? Maybe a religion?
Yet, in a way, I can see that he’s right. Time is precious. I should write about what really mattes.
This is going to be some interesting research. I’ll be back in a few years.
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The difference between categories and tags.
I’m going to have to research that further as it doesn’t really make sense to me. If each of these posts is snippet of text in a database, how could linking to that data result in duplicate pages? Even if it were multiple links it would still only be one little chunk of text right?
Sheesh, correct me if I’m wrong here, will ya? Maybe I still don’t get it.
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This nation is like a spring freshet; it overruns its banks and destroys all who are in its path”.
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45 days with WordPress
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Review of Digital Photography Class with Video Proof
Quick Review of Lynda.com online video training Digital Photography Principles: The Camera:
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How to send ‘em to that sa-weet spot
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