Just When We Thought...

...We were out of the web page creation business a new way to post a web page came our way.  We are avid fans of DropBox.  If you don't have a DropBox account, simply, get one.  It is useful in so many ways.

While browsing through the commentary on the utility's many uses we saw mention of one we never thought about, web page hosting.  We went to the link for DropPages and saw it was a rather simple thing to do.

It was so simple that it took a while for us to drop down a few gears to see it.  Having designed hosted pages in HTML then XML with CSS, we were looking for all of the language we needed to learn.  Nope, none.  Just do what the instructions say and zing, you have a website.

We got to make use of a four letter .com that's been lingering around our list of owned URL's for a while.  A few years ago, it was attacked by spam monsters, so we took it off the track, covered it with white cloth and closed the door.  Now it's back up and hosting a list page of the Famous Grazing Blogs.

We may never change it again, now that we put it up, but it will be there to be found by those with an interest in what a free website hosted on DropBox.com look like.
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Thanks For the Tweets!

We are back up as Belltowernews.com thanks to the hard overnight work of Brian and his coworkers at directNIC.com.  Their @directNIC.com Twitter page kept us all informed without having to panic.

Panic is never a good thing.
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directNIC not redirecting!

If you came here using belltowernews.com that means directNIC has resolved the problem.  Please go to twitter.com/grazingportal and leave us a tweet.  It is too late for us to stay up and worry over this.  There is just too much real chaos in the world right now to worry over keeping a blog up.
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A Friend's Blog - @spedteacher

It Isn’t In the Air « Education On The Plate
This is a link to @spedteacher's blog,  Education On the Plate.

I've known the author for,  let me see, 42 years.  We were fuzzy faced teenagers, ready to hit the streets & make the world a better place.  We worked for reform, attended demonstrations, some that turned into riots, others into moments of communal bliss.

We grew up but still each of us tried to make life better for people on a more personal level, one person or family at a time.

Read this story & the rest of the blog to see how @spedteacher hasn't given up on the world yet.

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They're Saying New Blogger

I usually write blog entries using software outside of Blogger.  This is because the Blogger interface leaves much to be desired.  Old hat, so to speak.  When I saw this page on TechCrunch, I rushed right over here without watching the film...

To be somewhat disappointed at seeing, as Nicely  Nicely would say, same old-same old.

Ahh! but careful examination does show there have been subtle changes, in the composition, template set up and the general interface with the writer.  What we need now is the fancy-dancy interface, portal so to speak, they are calling the Dashboard.

Back to the page creation software, but I will visit the Blogger homeland more often.
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Happy Thought Motorcycle Adventures: The Day my Husband Fell in Love....with his Kawasa...

"How could something so boring looking require so much love, be so much fun and have all the boys drooling over it..." My niece @HappyThought1 wrote in her blog below:

Happy Thought Motorcycle Adventures: The Day my Husband Fell in Love....with his Kawasa...:

I commented that she had entered into an epiphany when she answered the question above by embracing the joy her husband found instead of rejecting it out of hand as a danger to him, which it certainly is, or as competition to her, which it is no longer.

Until I saw them in person for my recent six decade birthday, I was still a tad worried, as all good Uncles should be.  But now I too have embraced their honest joy.  My wife, er.... not so much.  We can work on that.

You should go there and watch the videos they've made of their drives through the beauty that is Washington State.  If you have the time, don't miss the pieces she did going for a her licence.  Some very funny parts there while being entirely education as to the process.
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