In the eternal quest for Domination of the Blogosphere, Around the Grid offers a variety of share buttons at the bottom of each article that will place the piece on some of the many social networks available, from Twitter to Google+, to That Which Shall Not Be Named (but it’s big and blue and people [...]

I’ll be taking a week off from in-world travels while I take the RL kids to their grandmother for a week.  Hopefully, Around the Grid will still have at least one article coming during that time; it’s way past time that I did a few Contact Sheet columns.  In the meantime, make sure you check [...]

By what I’m figuring from my statistics, I passed 100,000 visits either Thursday or Friday.  That is good performance by this blog over over 4 1/4 years, and I thank everyone who’s stopped by to check me out, or to stay and read for a while.  I hope you’ll keep coming back.

The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog. Here’s an excerpt: The concert hall at the Syndey Opera House holds 2,700 people. This blog was viewed about 17,000 times in 2011. If it were a concert at Sydney Opera House, it would take about 6 sold-out performances for that many [...]

Not long ago, I featured an artist named Lanay in number 40 of Contact Sheet, admiring and praising her work.  Now it appears that I have a history with her that I must meditate on. Lanay declined adding her chosen photos to the Contact Sheet group on Koinup.  I didn’t understand at the time; most [...]

I recently passed the four-year mark in writing this blog, and I’m still going at it.  That’s a gratifying thing, considering that the last blog I wrote, focusing on RL, I lost interest in after three years, and shut it down a few months after the fourth anniversary.  Here in Second Life, I still find [...]

I hate to say this, but there will be no 2nd Annual Hallowe’en Photo Contest this year, due to a (hopefully) temporary lack of RL liquidity causing a corresponding lack in SL.  I always aim in my photo contests for a minimum of L$6,500 in prizes, but I won’t be able to do that until [...]

I finally have my computer back…but without any sound now.  It’ll take a few weeks to get the cash to have that fixed; until then, I’m enjoying the ability to get back online without having to borrow a machine! More in future.

I don’t know what’s happened this time, but my less than a year old tower is down. I wonder if bugs are munching on it during the day…? Any road, I won’t be able to take it in to some shop until next Tuesday or Wednesday, so I’ll be scrounging time on the husband’s netbook [...]

I love WordPress.  They give you so many great tools to write your blog with, and then they give you great tools to make it easier for people to leave comments as well. Starting today, you now have four choices for identifying yourself when you leave a comment:  as a guest, with your WordPress ID, [...]