Willis Whitlock on January 5th, 2009

I’m not too excited by meme tag. You know, one blogger tells about his 6 favorite Star Wars movies and challenges 6 friends to do the same. It’s sorta like breaking your friends writer’s block with chain mail.
I don’t condemn the practice. I steal memes from other bloggers all the time. (A meme, you know, [...]

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Willis Whitlock on November 7th, 2008

The unnoticed attack on freedom of thought has been fought slowly in the past. Now that a major counter-attack has been won, the silent enemy is revealed.

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Willis Whitlock on October 13th, 2008

Firesign Theater did a radio sketch in the late 60s that I remember well. Several hippies are talking assuring themselves and each other with the lines “I’m groovy. Are you groovy?,” “Yeah, I’m groovy.” and “We’re all groovy.”
Another man enters the scene and they start a new chorus. “He’s not groovy.” and “Hey, you’re not [...]

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Willis Whitlock on September 25th, 2008

The Twitter Handbook is about to hit shelves. When the editors asked me to contribute a short piece on Twitter in education, I was happy to share. Here’s an excerpt:
Many teachers find that Twitter is a better online collaboration tool than wikis or blogs. Some of the reasons include:Easy access- Twitter is invisible technology. The [...]

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Willis Whitlock on September 17th, 2008

My stated pupose for this blog is a place for me to learn about blogging. Well I meant to state that somewhere. I guess I should add it to the About page.
So part of that is learning how different stuff works. I really liked a lot of things about that other theme. It’s called Andreas. [...]

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Willis Whitlock on August 19th, 2008

Saturday’s Word Camp proved to be a good one. I learned a lot of things about WordPress and a lot about blogging. I got some inspiration, some great BBQ, and WP swag.
Perhaps best of all, I got to spend the weekend with son 3. He’s in SF studying programming and music. He lives with a [...]

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Willis Whitlock on August 13th, 2008

I’m pretty excited to be going to San Francisco this weekend. They have these WordCamp get togethers at various places around the world. This one looks to be one of the better ones.
Matt Mullenweg, the original progammer of WordPress will be there with a host of WordPress glitterati. Bloggers and developers together for a day. [...]

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Willis Whitlock on August 7th, 2008

My blog dashboard says,
Most users ever online were 27, on August 7, 2008 @ 3:43 am
Now I’m wondering what I wrote to get 27 users, let alone all at one time. It must be my sparkling personality, my well written prose, my….
What’s that you say? Bots?
How could that many bots congregate on my server all [...]

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Willis Whitlock on July 27th, 2008

I’ve been adding plugins and playing with sidebars. Part of the reason I put this blog up was to learn about blogging.
I’d appreciate any comments you have on any design or funtionality you have any thoughts about.
UPDATE: Random spaces between paragraphs. I have no idea what’s up with that.
UPDATE: It’s a new theme. New toys!

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Willis Whitlock on July 15th, 2008

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WordPress 2.6 is available. The last time I tried to upgrade I was off the blog for 2 months and everything was lost.
I had things going pretty good too. 19 people visited my blog one day. So, with trepidation, I enter the gates of upgrade. Hoping to see you on the other side.

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