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So up until the previous Wordless Wednesday post I put up a few minutes ago this is the first time I’ve blogged since April.
April?
Holy Shit.
So why do I even bother to keep my site(s) online?
Good question.
I won’t even apologize for the lack of posting. That’s pretty fucking lame. Suffice it to say that I have been busy with other pursuits. Work, work, occasional sleep, work…I think you get the picture. That and after twelve years of blogging it just hasn’t been quite as important.
Twelve years. That seems sort of amazing to me and it’s one of the reasons I am online typing this right now. Quite a bit has changed for me over the last twelve years, both online as well as in real life.
Originally I mainly wrote about techie stuff, mostly Windows customization. Then I started drifting into crime as well as personal updates. I drifted into the whole social media thing. Twitter and Facebook as well as a few others. I used them along with about fifteen or twenty other sites mainly to promote my web sites but over the last couple of years Facebook and now Google+ have pretty much replaced the blog as the place to post my thoughts. It’s a hell of a lot easier to type out a 140 character soundbite to tell how I am doing than it is to actually put down what’s going through my head…
I enjoy blogging though and while I may or may not continue to blog on any type of regular basis only time will tell. Don’t know about the crime blogging though. My crime site is still online and will most likely remain so since I still have advertising income coming in from that but I don’t know if I will return to it. I plan on at least putting out an update over there today but I don’t have any regular plans to update the site. Perhaps one of the folks that occasionally stop in will also put out a story or two. You never know. All total I have five different domains I still own (I let the other five lapse). This is one, the crime site is another and Shadowscope (my original blog) is still there too. I have it up to syndicate and pull in my posts from both sites because it’s been up so long. I also own a domain I used to put tech stuff online but am not currently using it or my daughter’s site which has also been pretty much abandoned.
Whatever. So how about an update or two?
I am unfortunately getting older every day and things that were important to me a decade ago no longer seem quite so important, having been supplanted by other new crap
My son who I have posted about in the past finished his time in the Marine Corps and returned safely home to us in June. He is currently working for me until he starts school in January. He’ll be going to Columbia University in New York City. We are very excited about that. It’ll be a great experience for him as well as open a lot of doors. He’s considering getting his degree in Economics. We’ll see.
The girls are busy as well. The youngest is right and my eldest daughter will be fourteen next month. Fuck, where does the time go. She’s involved in music and most likely this will be the path she will be taking. She plays in the band at the middle school but is also one of a few middle school students who get to play in the local high school’s marching band.
Of course I am still doing the same old shit. I have been moved around to different stores several times and now have the exact same district I was running five years ago. Of course it’s in horrible shape so I get to spend the next six months getting shit right. I have pretty much quit wondering why some people in management don’t give a fuck enough about their job to actually do it as they are asked. It’s pointless. All I can do is go in and be an asshole and make whatever changes are needed to get things back in line. It’s going to hurt my paycheck for several months but in the end it’s the right thing to do.
I had some other shit I wanted to write about but that train of thought has completely derailed by the ramen noodles my daughter just made. Guess it’s time to sign out.
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Have to be at the eldest daughter's school at six for some kind of meeting concerning their eighth grade trip. As if I wasn't spending enough money already. Ack.
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Shawn Joseph McCormack: Clues In Background Of Child Porn Video Lead To Alleged Molester’s Arrest (VIDEO)
By parsing every second of a child porn video, law enforcement officials apprehended a man accused of raping an 11-month-old boy in 2009. Federal investigators arrested Shawn Joseph McCormack, of Blac…Google+: View post on Google+
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Reshared post from +Colby Brown
GOOGLE+: THE SURVIVAL GUIDE TO A PHOTOGRAPHERS PARADISE v2.0 NOW AVAILABLE!
v2.0 – Change Log
- PDF VERSION NOW AVAILABLE
- MOBILE VERSION NOW AVAILABLE
- Photo Album Organization
- Notify on Publication of Post
- Paragraph Edit For Photo Captions
- Changing Photo Album Cover
- Building A Google+ Presence
- Google Chrome Extensions
- Mobile Application Updates
– Hangouts
– Messenger
– Check Ins
– Easier tagging
- New Hangout Features
– Screen Sharing
– Sketchpad
– Notes
– Live Stream
- Verified Name
- Ignore vs Block
- Share from +1 Button
- Google Games
- Open to the Public
- Floating Google+ Bar
- Mute Posts
- Google+ SearchThanks to +Dave Veffer for helping to edit this and put it together! Give him a circle!
Please RESHARE WITH EVERYONE!
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Version 2.0 of the complete walkthrough/tutorial of Google+ specifically for photographers. Updated Sept 21st, 2011 – Written by Colby Brown (www.colbybrownphotography.com)Google+: View post on Google+
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Reshared post from +Tom Anderson
New users – one cool thing about Google+ is that you can "mute" posts. What that means, is if a post keeps showing up at the top of your stream because people are commenting on it, you can make it disappear so you'll never see it again. This comes in handy when a user like me (with lots of friends on my list) posts something… you've seen it, read it, good. You don't want to see people comment on it all day long after that? Just mute the post!
This .GIF I'm sharing is funny and if your mind is open, it'll reinforce one of the great philosophical lessons — truth is not as "objective" as we might assume, everything we see & understand comes from a certain perspective. That said, you probably won't find an interesting discussion about Nietzsche's perspectivism under the .GIF. So if the discussion is boring you, MUTE AWAY!
To mute, mouse over the circle with the arrow in it (to the right of the post header) and click the "Mute this post". If for some reason you should want to Unmute, just return to my profile, find the post, and mouseover the little circle / arrow header again. There's an Unmute option. If I'd had known this in the beginning of my G+ experience it would have saved me a lot of time… Enjoy
UPDATE: Oh yes, keep in mind that you can control email notifications. No brainer / of course you can, but I've seen a lot of people complain about them when they start on G+. For what its worth, I've turned off all the notifications except for those that tell me when I'm mentioned in a post. That's usually worth clicking on if someone is trying to talk to me / say something to me, and because I get so many of them, the regular notifications on the site (top right red indicator) aren't sufficient. It maxes at 10!
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Sitting on the front porch smoking a Cohiba and drinking a Mike's Hard Limeade. Can't get much better.
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Pretty stupid move on my part but recently I was cleaning up my contact list. Since my phone connects via bluetooth in my car I wanted to pare my contact list down because there are just some folks I won't be calling. For instance, no reason that +Robert Scoble should show up when I am trying to dial someone from work. As much as he might want my advice about eating at Waffle House he probably won't be calling me either.
Anyhow I realized that all of the people in my circles had also been added to my contacts so without thinking (that's never happened before…) I got rid of about 50-60 folks in my list who either didn't have email addresses or phone numbers listed. Little did I know that it would also delete them from my circles here. Ooops.
Not sure that I quite like that feature. There are certain people that I will only ever contact over the Internet and then there are more who I only follow (stalk) but would never be in contact with.
While I do like the full integration of services that Google is aiming for I think there should be some separation between the two.
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I Support Rocky Horror Picture Show Being Performed In Carrollton
I Support Rocky Horror Picture Show Being Performed In Carrollton – Tell the mayor you disapprove of this move and let the cast know they have our support! – Description: Carrollton city manager Casey…Google+: View post on Google+
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