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Link love
Apr 12th
Scott, Dan Hull and Kevin have been talking up the need for us blawgers in the US to be more social. So I’m taking it to heart. Here’s a brand new blog, written by an old hand.
Norm Pattis has started “Stupid Prosecution Tricks“. He explains his reasoning here. Give Norm some extra love and don’t forget to add the link to your blogroll and reader.
(See! That’s how it’s done. FOUR links in the same post. I am so cool. I better get some link love in return.)
Big changes coming
Mar 15th
Stay tuned, dear readers, for there are some big changes coming to this blog in the very near future. I can’t tell you as of yet what these changes are or when they’re going to happen, but I can tell you that they are big and will happen soon. Stay tuned!
Reader survey – who are you?
Feb 10th
As this blog has grown, I have asked you to indulge me at times by answering silly questions in polls. Here’s another one; albeit a little more important. The answers to this question might shape the direction this blog takes in the coming months and will definitely help inform me about what I should and shouldn’t blog about. Readership is important and I want to get a sense of what my target audience is. The last time I asked, 35 of the responders told me they were from CT.
So if you’ll indulge me, the poll is below and will be in the sidebar for a while to come, so please vote.
[poll=20]
Just so you know
Feb 10th
The next comment will be the 2,000th legitimate comment on this blog. Thanks for making it fun for all of us! The winner gets nothing.
Update: Thought you might like to know that this software has caught 20,242 spam comments. Imagine! Legitimate comments are 9% of the total comments I get. Yikes.
Image by pbarnhart_cedarpark. License info here.
And we’re back
Feb 7th
Well, I don’t know what happened here yesterday. Something about the server and some maintenance or something. Gobbledygook. Anyway, we’re back and running. Thanks for sticking with us.
Posting will be slow
Feb 3rd
At least until mid-week. Rather busy here in Gideon-land, so I apologize. I’ll still try to have the jumpstart up tomorrow.
Some more new features
Dec 23rd
I added two new small, but useful, features earlier today. At the top of each post, both here and on an individual post page, you will now find two icons: Print and E-mail. Clicking on print takes you to a printable version of the post and clicking on E-mail will launch a pop-up window that will enable you to e-mail the post to someone.
Of course, e-mailing a post has always been a feature through “Share This”, the feature at the end of every post. Through “Share This” you can also share a post using any of the social networking websites (Technorati, Digg, delicious, stumble) and e-mail.
Enjoy 
New features
Nov 12th
I’ve just upgraded to WordPress 2.3.1 and I’m starting to explore with their new “tags” feature and a few related plugins. At the end of every post, you’ll see two sets of “tags”. The first is links to “tags” on this site, which leads to the related posts entry at the end of each post (Is that helpful? Does it get in the way?). The second set of “tags” are technorati tags.
I have also disabled the “quoter” plugin. It started acting all weird and stuff.
If something is broken, let me know and I’ll try to fix it.
Halloween edition
Oct 31st
As you can see, part of the blog has turned orange in honor of Halloween. Don’t worry, it won’t last long.
Quick design poll and new tagline contest
Aug 16th
I’m getting the design itch again. So here’s a quick poll for those of you that come to the blog to read the entries. Do you prefer the split 3-column view (like it is right now) or the 2-sidebars to the right view (like it is on the test blog)?
[poll=13]
Also, I’m getting sick of the current tagline. It’s efficient and to-the-point, but I want something more fun. So I am taking the hazardous step of soliciting slogans to replace the current one. The best one will be my new tagline with appropriate kudos to the person that comes up with it!
So get those creative juices flowing (or this is your chance to stick it to me!) 
(Remember: Appropriate taglines, obviously 
)
Comment functionality improved
Jun 11th
Just to let you guys know, I’ve improved the performance of comments on this blog. Now, you can quote other comments and respond to them individually, you can select text in the post and quote that text (use the “quote selected text” link right underneath the comment box) and see a live preview of your comment while you type it.
Enjoy!
Spam filter glitch
May 14th
The Akismet spam filter seems to be swallowing some real comments, so I apologize for that glitch. I’ll look into it this evening. In the meantime, if you submit a comment and it doesn’t show up, please send me an e-mail [threegenerations at gmail dot com] and I’ll rectify it.
Comments policy
Apr 28th
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