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14 June 2015
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I've been blogging now on this website since 2004. My first blog was on July 11th: I have three: Alora, Brittan and Maxwell. Herein I shall detail their exploits. Maxwell is almost a year old. Lately we have dubbed him the Cherriomancer, because of his habit of smacking a pile of Cherrios placed on the coffee table so that they fly off to the far corners of the house. Clearly there is magic involved. Not even Molly (our dog) ever finds them all. Just when you think they're all cleaned up, he'll pull another out of a truck or something. At the time I was still really focused on the genealogy aspect of the Wogsland.org, but as you can see I've haven't really updated my own kids' pages there since we lived in Sunnyvale. The word blog still sounds funny to my ears, being a shortening of "web log". I can't say that I've ever treated mine as anything beyond that - a log of activities. I have also been meticulous about maintaining control over them because of the ephemeral nature of the internet. How many third party hosting services have risen and fallen over the past decade? How many millions of blogs have just winked out of existence, lost to posterity by poor planning? I suppose that's the genealogist, the historian in me...Over the years I have gotten other family members to blog as well with varying degrees of success. For some reason they find the process of writing in HTML and then uploading cumbersome. For a long time it was via FTP, so I was maybe a little too militant about only modifying files in your own directory:
This may have been a bit of a turn off. Alora & Brittan went off to do their own things on Blogspot (FireFlies On My TableTop & Letters to the Parents) and Cara decided to set up her own thinkCara.com with Squarespace. Alora & Brittan's blogs are still up there, but Cara didn't keep up with hers so they are now lost to posterity. Fast forward to today, I finally broke down and let them set up WordPress on Wogsland.org so that they could easily upload blogs and style them without having to write any code. Alora has taken advantage of this the most with her most recent blogs. She dreams of being a writer, so it is good for her to practice writing and see how people react to her writing. Maybe we'll even get her to post some of her fiction... Today, I am happy to say, Cara has also returned. Here is her new blog. |
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