Archive for 'Blogging' Category
MIA
16 September 2011It’s been quite a while since I’ve posted. I lost my mom in March and that’s been difficult to overcome. It also changed my life significantly in that my dad now spends his days at my house. Lately I’ve been struggling over a desire to return to political blogging. I don’t really want to turn [...]
Blogging Blind
23 June 2010Blogging while legally blind presents some interesting challenges. Generally speaking it is relatively easy to control the size of things in a browser. In WordPress, however, when you make things too big on the post editing page, the text area goes under the sidebar controls, making it impossible to see some of what you’re writing. [...]
Typos and Other Vision Related Issues
22 June 2010Typos are an ever present reality for anyone who writes. But when your ability to proofread is compromised by a visual disability the problem can become unmanageable. For example, the squiggly lines under misspelled words are virtually invisible to me so I don’t have the visual clue others have. My best resource is to have [...]
What the Future May Hold
11 March 2009It’s been 10 months since I regularly wrote for this blog and now I’m thinking about picking it up again. Much has changed in that 10 months and little of that change has been positive. This country is accelerating down the road to destruction more rapidly each day. I don’t know if it’s even possible [...]
Printer Friendly Posts
9 February 2008I never really thought much about printing posts. Most people read blogs right on the blog. But my mom was complaining to me today about the fact that she can’t easily print a post from my blog without printing the sidebars and stuff she doesn’t want to print. So I went looking for a plugin [...]
Missing Blogrolls
9 February 2008You may have noticed that my blogroll is missing. I’ve noticed that too as have a lot of people using blogrolling.com. Many bloggers use blogrolling.com because their free service makes managing blogrolls much easier. But for the last several days, blogrolling.com has been down. We can’t log on to our blogroll accounts and their site [...]
